“Auto Warehousing Co. CIO Dale Frantz spent the Fourth of July holiday on his deck, fooling around with his brand-new iPhone. First, he tried pulling up a few of his favorite Web sites. No problem. Then, just for kicks, he tried accessing the company’s Web-based VIPS application, which runs virtually all of AWC’s auto processing operations,” Julia King reports for Computerworld.
“‘I keyed in the URL, and it presented the log-on page. Because VIPS was written for [Internet Explorer] 6, I wasn’t expecting functions to work,’ Frantz recalls. But after he typed in his user ID and password, up popped the application’s regular menu of options, and Frantz was off and running,” King reports.
“After his little backyard experiment, Frantz has another plan in the works: order iPhones for the 50 or so traveling managers and give them anywhere/anytime access to VIPS data via Internet access furnished under an enterprise contract with AT&T Inc. Some modifications will be necessary for 100% VIPS functionality on the iPhone, and Frantz has already charged AWC developers with making them,” King reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader ” DavidO” for the heads up.]
Dale, we love you, man!
I’m really glad to see these articles showing up on a respected site like this. People who are even a little interested in the Mac as a possible alternative to Windoze will take this kind of article very seriously as it is a trusted source. Once the business community catches on, Apple’s marketshare could increase exponentially every few months. The iPhone is going to quite simply make it more and more attractive and Leopard will add much more when it is released soon.
Steve Ballmer’s brain is inta coma.
has anyone heard from Microshit since the iPne launch? have any links?
maybe Ballmer & Co. are head high in zune shaped chairs
Hmmm. I think I’ll invest in whatever company(ies) Dale Frantz is involved in.
I am a sales manager at a Honda dealership, and I use VIPS to purchase off-lease vehicles. I wonder if it is the same VIPS.
Little by little, the iPhone is going to help make the internet standard again and loosen M$’s proprietary grip on web applications.