I believe we've been around the bend on this before :-)
The point was about the IBM i ecosystem growing thru SaaS.
Even in an equivalent Power hardware environment a new app developer might select Linux or AIX before choosing I for their new PHP app and LAMP stack.
Your success as an i-SaaS provider doesn't necessarily blaze the trail for new SaaS hosted i business growth it just means you can hide the platform because of the cloud aspect of your business.
Do you advertise "Proudly Hosted on IBM i" on your literature ?
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message: 4
date: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:58:13 -0700 (PDT)
from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: cloud services with new development on IBM i on Power
most new app developers will select Windows or Linux because
they can host a cheap version of their app on one of these servers
at Rackspace or Amazon and Viola instant Saas.
Are we talking about cloud servers for developers, or end-users? Development environments, or production environments?
What sort of RackSpace configuration including just their pricing would you suggest to support an application of say 500 DB Tables, 1500 Indexes, 1000 Views, including complete DB maintenance, transaction processing, reporting (HTML & PDF), end-of-day procedures, batch processing, & daily backups? Say 10 separate client environments and 2K-3K concurrent users with say 23.5 / 7 uptime requirements?
-Nathan
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