RE: Slashdiot article about P6

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

to write great software.

This sounds like a rash statement, but I am going to ask anyways... What
have they written that is even close to an operating system like OS/400
(a.k.a. i5/OS). Having the most popular web programming language doesn't
mean they can consume an operating system.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:35 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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
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