RE: Time to get serious

Moving to the iSeries and RPG for the reports was predicated on the fact
that our Dell 2650 with 4 2.8 GHz processors, 4GB ram and oogles of disk
capacity couldn't produce the reports fast enough.  What was taking
several hours during month end close takes us about 30 minutes with the
iSeries.

I'm not expert and definitely don't want to get into a flame, I'm just
the rookie speaking out of turn, but I'd put our iSeries up against Sql
server any day of the week and twice on Sunday and still have enough
time to watch Illinois win a national championship :)


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 6:08 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Time to get serious


> From: Walden H. Leverich
> 
> >Use SQL if you want, but get even better performance with native
> programming.
> 
> Native may perform better on iSeries than SQL on iSeries, but that 
> doesn't mean native on iSeries is better than SQL on another platform.

> We've see the results on this list (or maybe ignite, or web400, don't
> recall) a small PC with SQLServer blows the doors off a small iSeries 
> w/SQL.

This is complete crap, and the exact direction I did NOT want to go.  A
small PC with SQL server is ONLY doing SQL server, not the myriad other
things an iSeries does.  It also cannot scale to the size an iSeries can
without lots more hardware, etc.  We can rehash every damned argument in
the book, but it comes down to a business decision, whether you want to
go cheap and proprietary vs. robust and open.  Business decision.

But this is NOT about iSeries vs. Windows.  This is about native vs.
SQL, and the truth is that native is faster than SQL on the iSeries for
many operations, which I have carefully documented.  If you disagree
with that, you had better have facts, otherwise you're just trolling.

And Walden, any time you want to run an MRP generation over a 100
million record database on your little SQL Server box and compare it
with my RPG on an iSeries, I'm ready for you.

Joe

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