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Lukas Beeler wrote:
The real question that needs to be asked is this one: If you're a
startup ISV today, and are looking for a platform to design your
product to, why would one choose the System i as a platform?
The short answer is lower cost of ownership. Very seriously, the cost
of information technology in most cases has little to do with the
hardware, operating system, or database. The cost of services generally
goes way up as ISVs try to support a mixture of disparate technologies -
especially distributed systems.
I think it's true that 5250 is somewhat obsolete, but consider how 5250
has withstood the test of time - especially when compared to the number
of Microsoft technologies that have come and gone over the past 25
years. If you're a Microsoft ISV you can pretty much count on your
development and runtime paradigms shifting substantially every 5-6
years, and you end up being forced to rewrite.
The pendulum swung from server based applications to client based
applications. Now with Web technologies we're back to server based
applications, and that's a great fit for the System i.
Nathan.
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