Re: Slashdiot article about P6

On 1/5/07, Keith Carpenter <carpcon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Richter,Steve wrote:

> well Tommy,
the blind boosterism and running off of heritics
has not worked very well these many years.
Let's try another approach. Bring in a bunch of Microsoft people,
beg Oracle to buy i5/OS from IBM, ...

Steve,
IMHO, the list has been fairly polite.

that's my point, Keith. The community should be angry at IBM. They are
not investing in the platform, the hardware is geared down and it is
way overpriced. If IBM does not want to be in the i5/OS business -
they should sell the platform to someone who does.

DB2 and i5/OS are inseparable.  Not what Oracle needs.

I dont know. I am not convinced that getting the ILE C compiler to
compile GNU C packages is impossible.  i5/OS might need DB2, but user
application code can use any database. You just need an RPG
precompiler and the APIs to call.  My guess is database systems
written in C could be ported to native i5, and if the hardware ran at
modern, dual quad core speeds, it would be a viable alternative to
DB2.

What about Zend? Would be great if that company bought i5/OS. They
know how to write great software.

-Steve