Re: Power7 interactive

From: Bryce Martin
Chris, This is true, you do <get> a lot of bundled software, but do end
users really need that?

IBM i Access. Navigator. Web Sever Admin. Systems Director. PDM. Rational
Developer for Power. STRSQL. WRKQRY. Tons of CL Commands and Menus.
Individual IBM i user profiles. Monitoring active jobs by user. Individual
message queues. Individual output queues. User based authorities. You could
probably add a lot of things that people use every day, but often take for
granted.

It seems as though you could really keep your costs down by
using the web app model if you have hundreds or thousands of users
on a box.

Well, if somebody were to develop Web interfaces that were as functional &
capable as 5250 & other IBM interfaces, they'd probably charge for it too.

The only thing I know of that would hurt this is the ability of the
WAS server to handle the save amount of users as 5250 on the same sized
box.

That's another factor. Most Web interfaces consume 10-30 times more resources
than 5250 interfaces.

So I'm guessing there is a limitation of how much
you could take advantage of it anyway.

True, but that won't keep more workloads from moving to web based applications.

-Nathan