Hi All,
Just got done reading two stories on ITJungle.com:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh071607-story03.html and
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh071607-story01.html. The two things talked
about were a shortage of new i5 talent coming from educational institutions
and market share that IBM is losing to Oracle - nothing surprisingly new to
any of us.
In the end I think we are seeing these stats simply because it is fairly
difficult to get your hands dirty with an i5 and corresponding technologies
vs. developing a business around PC based technologies, or more directly
stated: I can't download RPG and i5OS to my PC and start developing
applications. Again, nothing really new here - we have talked about
availability before. This leads me to the question/statement of this
thread.
Based on my limited knowledge, I am wondering what the complexities would be
to "port" i5OS to something like a VMWare instance running on my PC. I
would only consider this potentially possible based on hearing about the
different hardware changes where statements like "pSeries has the same guts
as iSeries" and "single level storage, hiding hardware implementation" are
made here an there. In my mind if IBM could make i5OS more available to the
general population, it would start catching on more, or rather, much faster.
For the sake of argument let's leave timeshare OUT of the mix. We all know
they exist and are relatively inexpensive, but they are very restrictive in
letting you "mess around" with a machine to learn how it works (and rightly
so).
To reiterate my question: What are the complexities to "port" i5OS to
something like a VMWare instance running on my PC?
Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
midrange.com
