Opinions on "good news/bad news"... picking Websphere or

Mike E. wrote:

Do you have Java programmers on staff?  Do you have VB.NET or C++

programmers on staff?  That's going to affect your ramp-up.
Long-term, either platform will probably be around for a while.  We
have Java guys, so we went Websphere.  I won't say it was easy.  But
we like running WAS on the System i.<<

Some experience with both, not a lot.  Since I'll probably be doing the
pilot apps, I have background in many languages but, for this purpose,
mainly HTML, .ASP, Java Script.   So, to me, I could go either way.  
I'd prefer to run the web app on the i5 but want to make a smart move
for the short and long terms.  To that end, I'd like to find out if our
Websphere environment on the i5 is up and running and set it up
correctly if not.  How can I tell?

Thanks,

Dave