RE: Casino switches to AIX -- MIDRANGE-L

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:24 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Casino switches to AIX

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:28 AM, <ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But does .NET run on a platform that is reliable enough to run your
business on? Not the business I work for. We've been troubleshooting IE,
.NET, and Excel issues for about 7 days now that were triggered by a simple
installs/uninstalls of unrelated utility applications. I sure am glad the
the databases and apps that are truly running our BUSINESS are on a stable
i5 running V6R1 (which converted thousands of 'old' programs, java
programs, IFS names, etc. without event a few weeks back and installed on 3
complex machines without a hitch). I guess we're lucky that because our
truly IMPORTANT apps run on the i, we had that extra week to troubleshoot
this goofy Windows issue we burned all the time on.

this all may be true, but the .NET approach of interop and code reuse
is a great selling point for the Windows platform. IBM i needs
something similar to compete. ILE was a good step in the right
direction for code interop. But since the 1990s, not much more has
been done on the language front. And what with the emphasis on Java
and now PHP, languages interop even less on IBM systems than they did
10 yrs ago.

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