Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Hey Trevor - is the AS/400 Syndrome similar to the Stockholm Syndrome where the 
customers held hostage to IBM's milking of the "i" customer base (with hardware 
pricing and 5250 tax) eventually begin to feel sympathy for their "captor" ?  

OK - I'll crawl back under my rock now.  ;-) 
 
Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada 
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----- Original Message ----
From: Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:01:40 PM
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Nathan,

I wrote about AS/400 Syndrome here: 
http://www.angustheitchap.com/Angus/Blog/BD1B62CC-8BDB-46B8-A1BF-429D4BA48DF5.html
 . 
It does not refer to the name, specifically.

I agree about wanting to learn more. I am working on PHP here, as well. For 
now, I have no benchmarking - but when I do get a serious application 
installed, I should be able to compare PASE against Linux, and PASE MySql 
against PASE DB2.

If anyone has some of these numbers, I would be interested in seeing their 
comparisons.

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Trevor Perry wrote:

So, on the basis on one application - not knowing the size of the server,
the size of the application, how it was installed, or whether the system 
was
tuned to handle it - we should not use PASE?
Seems reasonable to someone with AS/400 syndrome, I expect :-)

Let's not rehash the debate over the name of the system.  Let's defer to 
IBM, and call it a System i.  And as far as PASE is concerned, I'm 
interested in learning more about it.  PHP is so widely used that it makes 
sense for IBM to support it.  But if it's subject to performance 
constraints, then it would be good to know about them.  Just asking.

Nathan.

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