Re: giving an iSeries system to each college

And one of the issues surrounding LAMP is the acquisition cost. Now,
I'm not talking about TCO - I'm talking about a developer that wants
their own gig or wants to make some cash on the side or wants to
retrain or wants to improve skills...or whatever.

The total cost for all the software for learning and developing LAMP
solutions is...minor drumroll...$0 USD. Sure...it's easier to fork
over some bucks and get stuff on a CD, but you don't have to. And a
cheap Intel box...probably have one lying around someplace.

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a way, like Aaron suggested for the
loaner program, to get people involved in i5 stuff?

I was the BP for the college...and adjunct faculty...and
cheerleader...and PTF and upgrade guy...and all that stuff. And it was
cool...but then I moved about 50 miles away and didn't do it anymore.
And no one really stepped in. And so it goes...

On 1/24/07, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I was surprised at Nick's statement of Mankato MN being
>the last tech college in MN that offers iSeries/RPG specific >curriculum...

IBM's education initiatives are encouraging, and I want to see them succeed.

I read that Dell's revenue last year was somewhere around $67 billion (I didn't 
verify that number), which if true, it really dwarfs IBM's System i revenues, 
which were estimated to be around $2 billion.

Given the market share of Intel based systems, ISV's tend to focus on Wintel 
and Lintel platforms, instead of the System i.

There's quite a bit of temptation to adopt LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, and PHP 
- or substitute Perl, Python, or Ruby), which are hot technologies, right now.

So anything that IBM and ISV's can do to spur the development of the System i 
ecosystem is especially appreciated.

Nathan M. Andelin






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