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First, let me say that I love iSeries. It's my career path. Period.
I develop open source solutions with Asterix and I am still pursuing the 3Com solution on the System i. They each have their place, driven by business requirements. Folks haven't stopped buying other OS's just because Linux is available and free.
No argument there.
As for dumping phones. VoIP is gaining traction and the reality is that within 5-10 years traditional PBX's will be few and far between.
Again I agree. It's like the 3196 vs PC. Sooner or later, companies will switch to the newer stuff.
Haven't even mentioned application integration, which has it's own benefits on System i. It all looks good to me. The proof, of course, will be hearing of successes over the next year or so.
My employer is trying to integrate Asterisk with our iSeries application suite, and the VoIP aspect has had very little traction. Nobody knows what VoIP means, what benefits there are or what costs there might be. All they know is that everybody's talking about it. We're having more luck placing Asterisk as a voice mail platform than an integrated VoIP platform. And we're squarely in the SMB marketplace.
All I'm trying to do is let other iSeries folks know that VoIP is one of those emerging technologies, and that our competition will come not only from traditional telephony players (Nortel offer a SIP softswitch PBX) but from Asterisk as well. Knowing the competition is the first step to beating them.
--buck
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