What do you like about your i? Was->RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Why run PHP on the i5 when it runs 4x faster on another brand server at a

lower price?

Not having to go with "another app another server" comes to mind.  It
becomes very apparent how much time it takes to admin multiple servers when
you don't have a huge staff.  All the sudden applying updates to 1 box vs 10
is a huge time savings (i.e. not having to hire people).  Here's how I view
it.  In the end you are not running 4x faster, instead the iSeries is doing
10x the processing that the Windows machine is doing, so I wouldn't expect
it to get the same performance as a "single app single server" model.

Ever since these conversations have come up in the past year I have been
questioning why I would stick with an iSeries myself.  At first I thought it
was a no brainer to just go with a cheap Windows server and be done with it,
but I didn't have the full picture.  Get hacked into once and you realize
that having iSeries security means a lot.  Have a job bomb once and you
realize how much you enjoy being able to go to a job log to figure out what
could be wrong.  That's just the start of what I am guessing could become
quite a long list of benefits the iSeries provides over other
platforms/Oses.

Slight tangent...
If IBM makes the right changes to RPG in the near future (possibly including
a name change), the iSeries could be THEE platform of choice for web
development.  Those changes to RPG are many, but the mindset of RPG has most
always been in the right direction - keep it simple, keep it productive and
keep it seamless (thinking of DB access and easy modular programming).

The iSeries has a lot going for it that we take for granted IMO.  So let's
start a list of things we overlook and see where we get.  I have started
with two simple ones:

1. Security
2. Job Logs

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com