Re: cloud services with new development on IBM i on Power

Richard,

I believe what Nathan was trying to point out that most users don't need to
know or care what their software is running on or what it's written in, as
long as it runs, and runs well, and is scale-able.

You seem to be trying to take that in the opposite direction. :)

Users what productivity and shouldn't care if it's written in RPG or Ruby
on Rails.

Brad
www.bvstools.com



On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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 ?

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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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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