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  3. May 2007

Re: MySQL on System i

Joe Pluta wrote:
I'm just trying to think through the scenarios here, and if the idea is to
bring LAMP applications to the System i, you can already do that through a
Linux partition. What is the benefit of turning i5/OS into a PHP/MySQL box?

From my perspective, it would bring the robustness of DB2/400 (DB2/i5?)
to PHP applications.

Wouldn't that tend to squeeze RPG out of the picture?

Not really ... PHP is primarily a web UI language (at least IMO) ...
similar to JSP. I would suggest that an organization use PHP for their
web front end, with RPG doing the heavy lifting. Obviously that
requires a mechanism to invoke RPG from PHP ... but I don't know if that
exists yet.

I suppose anything that brings users to the box is good, but do you want to
support business applications written in PHP and MySQL?

There are a lot of applications that already exist, that will now be
able to benefit from the robustness of the platform.

JMO, of course.

david


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