Re: Bob Cancilla's blog taken down?

All,

The big iron drives the majority of IBM's revenue on i. I do agree with the
comment above about open source on LINUX. I think companies that have been
hesitant to embrace Open Source are now seeing enough expertise in the
industry and enough stability in Open Source software to embrace them.

Power Linux has run on the machine for quite sometime now. If you look at
the Power Systems web sites, at IBM.COM and look at the Virtualization
Engine, IBM Director support for IBM i and the four pillars of IBM Software
Group you will see a major investment and commitment to the machine (Power5
and Power6) with tons of Software running on AIX and LINUX.

In fact do not be surprised to see the best features of OS/400 aka i5/OS aka
IBM i move into the virtualization engine. It is pretty awesome today with
full virtualization of DASD, Network Connectivity, Memory, and the ability
allocate 1/10th of 1 processor to all 64 processors to an LPAR! You can
alter them dynamically at will and bring up a new LPAR in minutes.

Look also at the benchmarks. Java and IBM Java based servers perform best
on AIX and LINUX. Look, IBM i or i5/OS or OS/400 will always be in my book
an amazing operating system, but...

Quite frankly what it was good at was batch and 5250 Interactive
processing. A LINUX LPAR running the WebSphere App Server or another one
running the Apache HTTP server is pretty darn awesome too. Especially when
they all share the same resources. Add to the mix the choices you have in
DASD today over just a year ago and you still have the best machine in the
world.

Bob C.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The big shops are really important to the ecosystem as a whole; that's
where
the best margins, profits and work come from. In some respects the larger
systems underwrite the smaller hops by making the system profitable. Think
of them as the bottom floor of a house of cards....

Regards
Evan Harris


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, 23 September 2009 3:29 a.m.
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Bob Cancilla's blog taken down?

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Bob Cancilla <bob.cancilla@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Some of you quoted some major companies that are using iSeries. Many of
those are leaving the platform under mandate from their corporate IT
organizations. Again I will not name names as I got that information

while

at IBM so that would be inappropriate, but some of the largest and best
known iSeries shops are leaving the platform.

Interesting how a system that is best suited for small shops has its
future threatened by the decisions of large shops. I know people
reject the open source approach as unfeasible and/or unwanted, but at
least that would allow us to survive. The hardware that IBM i runs on
is arguably the best on the market.
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