Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

On 12/11/06, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>John Jones wrote:
> The costs I'm complaining about are essentially hardware & OS
> related.



Another way to look at the problem, is the cost of inefficient architecture, 
which is my primary motivation for using the native virtual machine, languages, 
and interfaces, as opposed to distributed architectures like J2EE and .Net.

A number of my colleagues develop somewhat comparable Web applications under 
J2EE, but the performance difference is something like 10 to 1, against.

In other words, the ILE versions of our Web applications consume about 1/10 of 
the amount of CPU, as their J2EE counterparts.

Since this thread is about saving the System i, one way to do that is to use 
native interfaces, because of the performance advantages over comparable 
applications running under distributed architectures.

Someone may say they can get 5 Wintel or Lintel servers for the cost of a single 
>CPU System i, but I can respond, saying no problem, my software is 10 times 
>more efficient than yours.

efficient code takes longer to write and more effort to maintain.  The
i5 needs fast, modern hardware to survive because otherwise too much
effort is expended programming the system.  RPG and C are closer to
machine language than they are to PHP.

-Steve