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As someone who first put my hands on a System 38 in 1980, I feel their
pain ... but see this as the long-term cost of IBM's marketing
missteps for this outstanding product line ... namely, the:

- lack of product differentiation for the "i" line (or the System/38
for that matter)
- constant name changes (and the shrieking of "System i advocates" if
I don't use the name of the week) ... like the "IBM genius" who
decided to rename the operating system for the current processor ...
knowing that the next generation was right around the corner

At the same time, we must move onward ...

I've tried to post a job for a System i PHP programmer on the midrange
jobs list yesterday & have gotten a bounce message that implied that
this "wasn't a System i job". My RPG programming staff is happy &
busy, but with IBM's support for PHP on the System i, I need
additional staff with different perspectives (yes, we do believe in
promotion from within ... to anticipate the inevitable retort ...).

PHP is a great alternative for most System i shops. While it is
robust enough to develop enterprise level applications (we are
building one now), it also is great for the typical System i shop that
needs 5 to 10 web pages that expose data from the System i to selected
users on a website (we have done this with about seven System i shops
to date and have a quickly growing backlog). It doesn't have the
up-front license cost / learning curve / heavy hardware requirements
that the other primary web development methods for the System i have.

The Internet is all about servers ... the best server should win ...
both my staff and I believe that the System i is the best server ...
as do our customers.

I've never supported the "learn Java or else get ready to flip
burgers" school of thought. At the same time, we must be open to new
technologies, and embrace them when appropriate, or else we will one
day need to "pwrdwnsys *immed" too.

John Myers
President and CEO
Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
17 S. Franklin Turnpike, Ramsey, NJ 07446 USA
jmyers (at) sbsusa.com
www.sbsusa.com

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On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Chuck Lewis
<chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With Restart *NO ?

"A Cleveland-based user group says it's been pushed offline by the
Internet"

http://tinyurl.com/67v7fb

Chuck


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