RE: Switching to Java on OS/400 - got a few questions.

java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 20/09/2005 17:37:09:

> And just so you know, Pete:
>
> First, I'm not doubting you're having problems.  However, my take on
> this is that you haven't talked to the right people.  What did Blair
> Wyman say?  How about Frances Stewart?  My pushing to find out who is
> giving you these recommendations is not to cause you grief, but instead
> to make sure you get the right resources.  IBM is not a monolithic
> company, and oftentimes you don't get the whole story, especially when
> it comes to the iSeries.
>
> Second, I don't blindly recommend the iSeries for all jobs.  If I
> understand your application correctly, you're serving web pages from a
> non-iSeries platform and connecting to the iSeries via JTOpen.  In my
> opinion, that's one of the best ways to do things.  However, I'd still
> want to know what was causing the severe performance degradation you're
> seeing on the iSeries.

Joe, maybe if you are interested in what we saw I'd gladly take this off
line. I've no doubt from plutabrothers I'd get some good pointers and it
might give you an insight into the problem we had - best planned for a time
when I'm not sooooo busy !

>
> Anyway, sorry if I sounded cranky.  Didn't mean to be.  Just trying to
> get to the facts is all.
>

That's fine, apologies from me as well. I've been working long hours on
internet upgrades over the last two months and am not looking forward to
the planned finish tonight at 4am considering it's still only 18:00 here !!

Regards,
Pete.

> Joe
>
>
> > From: Joe Pluta
> >
> > This isn't petty.  Just trying to pin down facts, is all.  To tell
> > someone they should test performance is all fine and good; everybody
> > should do that.  But it would be nice to have more information about
> the
> > type of application that gets a 40-to-1 performance boost moving from
> an
> > 8-way i5 to a Wintel machine.
>
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