RE: Why can't we eat our own cooking?

["DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth, I would hesitate to use the term inferior....  I think the point is that 
Midrange.Com is a product of Open Source technologies, optimized for Linux.  
Using System i just to host linux apps seems a bit overkill.  It's unlikely 
that some(any?) of the products that David uses to run the lists/services at 
Midrange.com are readily available as native System i applications, and while 
they COULD be ported to run in PASE or native, this would be a maintenance 
nightmare.  Each new release of these open source packages would need to be 
re-ported.....  If he just uses the hardware to run linux workloads, then how 
is that better than what he uses now?



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:34 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Why can't we eat our own cooking?


Well, I agree with all of these sentiments.  Next question:  Why is the 
System i inferior?  What can be done to make it at least an equal?  Some 
of the issue, I am sure, is implementation, and having a few boxes in 
production, in the real World environment should allow us to bring the 
System i up to World standards for Internet usage.

But then, I am a NASCAR fan, and I believe that the car companies have 
learned a lot from their racing ventures.

Ron Adams wrote:
> In defense, I might add, "use the right tool (or the one best suited) for
> the job".
> You wouldn't use a hammer to dig a whole would you?
>
> On 5/10/07, GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > > Would the heavy hitters on this list please make the case with the right
> > >       
> > > people to get David to Rochester for a week or so to get a new box
> > > properly configured, and send him home with it?   Please?
> > >       
> > I agree with Scott Klement's response and also add that "if it's not
> > broke, don't fix it".
> >
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