RE: What do you like about your i? Was->RE: Saving the System i:Fight Rather Than Switch

I have some negatives, want to read them? ;)

Well never get better until we know what is wrong :-)  Note that your list
of negatives will be picked apart piece by piece, but I suspect you expect
that;-)

What are the other things that the iSeries is lacking in your mind?

Aaron Bartell 

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
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Subject: Re: What do you like about your i? Was->RE: Saving the System
i:Fight Rather Than Switch

On 12/8/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why run PHP on the i5 when it runs 4x faster on another brand server 
at a

lower price?

Not having to go with "another app another server" comes to mind.  It 
becomes very apparent how much time it takes to admin multiple servers 
when you don't have a huge staff.  All the sudden applying updates to 
1 box vs 10 is a huge time savings (i.e. not having to hire people).  
Here's how I view it.  In the end you are not running 4x faster, 
instead the iSeries is doing 10x the processing that the Windows 
machine is doing, so I wouldn't expect it to get the same performance as a

"single app single server" model.

Ever since these conversations have come up in the past year I have 
been questioning why I would stick with an iSeries myself.  At first I 
thought it was a no brainer to just go with a cheap Windows server and 
be done with it, but I didn't have the full picture.  Get hacked into 
once and you realize that having iSeries security means a lot.  Have a 
job bomb once and you realize how much you enjoy being able to go to a 
job log to figure out what could be wrong.  That's just the start of 
what I am guessing could become quite a long list of benefits the 
iSeries provides over other platforms/Oses.

Slight tangent...
If IBM makes the right changes to RPG in the near future (possibly 
including a name change), the iSeries could be THEE platform of choice 
for web development.  Those changes to RPG are many, but the mindset 
of RPG has most always been in the right direction - keep it simple, 
keep it productive and keep it seamless (thinking of DB access and easy

modular programming).

The iSeries has a lot going for it that we take for granted IMO.  So 
let's start a list of things we overlook and see where we get.  I have 
started with two simple ones:

1. Security
2. Job Logs

the integrated debugger and call stack support of the system is outstanding.
Much better than what I found dabbling with Linux.

I have some negatives, want to read them? ;)

-Steve
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