Re: Trying to keep it on "i"? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Steve,

Check out the Why i? presentation from Steve Will - Chief Architect of IBM
i. It is on YouTube in 6 parts..
http://www.youtube.com/user/lugoffice#p/c/39B78BC5D25F2D4C/0/dOTPNXFC2eQ

It may give you some ammunition, and some compelling reasons to
remain/invest in IBM i.

Trevor

On 5/13/10 11:55 AM, "sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

List -

I have a former client which currently runs their insurance applications
(claims and underwriting) on a System i. I helped with their original
implementation of an AS/400 COBOL-based applications back in the 1990's.
They are currently involved in a software search for a new application, and
would prefer an IBM i solution because of their investment in infrastructure
and staff.

As far as I know, most insurance software vendors have migrated away from
the IBM i platform.

I have suggested that if they have current IBM Power hardware, however, that
they could preserve their hardware investment by using a package which could
run on AIX or Linux, and from what I recall in the recent IBM announcement,
the Oracle database actually performs better on Power hardware than on Sun
hardware.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

- sjl

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