× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.


  1.  Home
  2. WDSCI-L
  3. July 2008

Re: Webfacing out, EGL in

Jon Paris wrote:
Not for IBM i users Joe. There is no charge for the new version of Studio. If you don't
Cool. I don't see that stated anywhere, but that's good.

So I guess technically, PHP is indeed free. You can install a slower,
less capable version with web-only support and no Eclipse IDE for free.

As I noted above, the Eclipse-based Studio IDE is free for i users. Even if it wasn't you could always use the PHPEclipse or PDT plug-ins.
Yep. And you can use Tomcat and MySQL. You can use Ruby on Rails. Or Python. Heck, there are lots of alternatives once you're willing to go open source. I'm talking products supported by IBM.


In fairness - shouldn't one also point out that for deployment purposes the only "free" IBM supported application server is also "less capable"? (I don't know about slower so I can't comment).
WebSphere Express? The only "limitation" that I know of is when compared to WebSphere Network Edition, which provides full clustering and failover support across multiple servers, things most companies smaller than Google don't really need.

I absolutely advise clients they can run production applications on WebSphere Express with no loss of performance. Do you advise clients that they should run on Zend Core for production?

Joe

As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

This thread ...
Follow-Ups:
Replies:
Follow On AppleNews
Return to Archive home page | Return to MIDRANGE.COM home page

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.