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To: Neil S who wrote (410)	10/19/1998 12:28:00 PM
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Java's Future -- Sun's Language Is Working Its Way Into Mainstream Computing techweb.com <<Steve Gimnicher, VP of Computer Network Technology Corp., which provides tools for reengineering and building applications for mainframe and other legacy systems, thinks the best opportunities for Java lie with the server. CNT is focusing on applications such as one built for AT&T's Inbound Call Receive Center, which uses HTML for the thin client for 400 customer-service representatives and taps Java on the server to access customer records and other data. While CNT relies mainly on a non-Java midtier connectivity product, it expects this new Java solution to account for 25% of its sales in less than 12 months.>> Browsing The Mainframe techweb.com <<Ramping Up In addition to improving external communications, Web-to-mainframe links can streamline internal communications. Minneapolis health care provider Allina Health Systems, for example, is testing CNT Application Reengineering Environment (CARE) to provide hospital administrators with a common access method to patient billing information. One hundred users at one of Allina's 18 hospitals are currently using the CNT Web interface, and there are plans to roll the application to 17 other hospitals and 60 clinics by early 1999, according to Stan Hunecke, the manager of application architecture at the health care company. The company has a handful of other applications that also could benefit from moving to Web interfaces and is waiting to see how the administration work proceeds. "Right now, we have added Web capabilities to only 1 percent of our applications, so an awful lot of work lies ahead of us," Hunecke says.>>