RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

Joe,
Correct me if I am wrong here but those "expensive CPU cycles" you are 
referring to operate on the batch side, so the cost as far as interactive is 
concerned is not as heavy.

I agree there are hidden costs that need to be evaluated including what is 
the best platform for the situation and not all platforms are applicable in 
all circumstances.

Certainly no one size fits all methodology here.


On Wed, 3 May 2006 07:06:31 -0500, Joe Pluta wrote
> > From: Tom Jedrzejewicz
> > 
> > CGIDEV2 is free, the incremental cost of serving .NET is pretty
> > small, and Tomcat is free.
> 
> Boy.  I try to stay out of philosophical discussions these days, but 
> them's fightin' words <g>.
> 
> If you have a reason to go to a GUI (and for many people, replacing 5250
> emulation with a browser is reason enough), then you need to make a careful
> decision because a bad choice in GUI can cripple your project and is 
> often a good excuse for getting rid of that bad old AS/400.
> 
> RPG-CGI has a number of hidden costs, chief of which is a lack of
> portability.  You will always have to use the expensive cycles of 
> your iSeries box to format HTML strings.  Not necessarily bad, but 
> certainly not free.
> 
> The POTENTIAL incremental cost of .NET is quite large considering the
> security implications of running IIS.  As always, the single biggest 
> problem with the Microsoft stack is the fact that it runs on Windows.
> 
> Tomcat is indeed free.  And runs very well on both the iSeries and 
> on cheap "sidecar" boxes (by cheap I mean <$500).  Plus it runs JSP 
> Model II, which is perhaps the best web application architecture 
> available today.
> 
> Joe
> 
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