Re: p and i systems reliability

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You say that most folks are moving business apps to Wintel... while 
that's true, I've been hearing an awful lot of reports of people 
switching from IBM i to running SAP on AIX.

Pete Helgren wrote:
> Yep, it *could*.  I was thinking more in terms of someone who has an i 
> and is being told that they need to switch to a "more modern" platform 
> like Wintel.  I wonder about business applications available in AIX?  I 
> know web serving and DB serving are strong application areas but when I 
> scan my memory for an advertisement touting a business application on 
> AIX I come up dry.  I am *sure* they exist (just Google for them) but in 
> terms of mind share for business applications, it is predominately 
> Windows I think.
>
> I guess I'd rather see someone go from i to p than from i to Intel.