RE: Switching to Java on OS/400 - got a few questions.

And just so you know, Pete:

First, I'm not doubting you're having problems.  However, my take on
this is that you haven't talked to the right people.  What did Blair
Wyman say?  How about Frances Stewart?  My pushing to find out who is
giving you these recommendations is not to cause you grief, but instead
to make sure you get the right resources.  IBM is not a monolithic
company, and oftentimes you don't get the whole story, especially when
it comes to the iSeries.

Second, I don't blindly recommend the iSeries for all jobs.  If I
understand your application correctly, you're serving web pages from a
non-iSeries platform and connecting to the iSeries via JTOpen.  In my
opinion, that's one of the best ways to do things.  However, I'd still
want to know what was causing the severe performance degradation you're
seeing on the iSeries.

Anyway, sorry if I sounded cranky.  Didn't mean to be.  Just trying to
get to the facts is all.

Joe


> From: Joe Pluta
> 
> This isn't petty.  Just trying to pin down facts, is all.  To tell
> someone they should test performance is all fine and good; everybody
> should do that.  But it would be nice to have more information about
the
> type of application that gets a 40-to-1 performance boost moving from
an
> 8-way i5 to a Wintel machine.