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I suppose anything that brings users to the box is good, but do you want
to support business applications written in PHP and MySQL?
Yes. There are a number of good applications out there and I'd love to see
them on the i. As to bad PHP code of course it is out there - but I've seen
some pretty disgusting Java code too and of course not all RPG is perfect
(just the stuff that you and I have written!)
Of course you can run LAMP applications in a Linux partition, but that's
hardly the point. We could have run Apache that way too - didn't stop it
from being useful (invaluable?) to have a native port though.
The point is that when MySQL is ported to the box _if_ it does as planned
and uses i5/OS DB2 as its data storage engine, then my "regular" database
tables are now available though MySQL, and the data stored via MySQL is
available to my regular programs. THAT is what's interesting to me. To be
able to take a canned application written in PHP/MySQL and to write reports
and other extensions in RPG is I think a very useful option. Rather than
squeeze RPG out it helps to make sure that it remains a viable part of the
enterprise.
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com
midrange.com
