Re: Housekeeping

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your right;  for the more complex environments to be vertically 
integrated it is getting somewhat more complex to set up, but simpler to 
manage once it is set up (exception VIOS).

If you want IBM i with its total integration and use that box to run 
your business, it's still simple.  It  all depends on how much 
unstructured data you have to manage.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 5/21/2013 7:33 AM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
> Forgive me for butting in here, because I have absolutely no experience
> with VIOS or blades or PureFlex or whatever, but a thought keeps creeping
> into my head.
>
> We're going backwards.
>
> The IBM i is supposed to be simple to manage.  This doesn't sound like it's
> making things simpler.  Are we going to get to a point where the "Laughing
> Boardroom" ads don't apply anymore?
>
> Just my .02.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Vernon Hamberg<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > >  I won't say that the FSM of PureFlex does everything, but I believe it
> > >  IS a graphical interface to managing those boxes - wouldn't it be nice
> > >  to get that for other places?
> > >
> > >  Has anyone used it? Is it much more GUI than, say, HMC?
> > >
> > >  On 5/21/2013 6:08 AM,rob@xxxxxxxxx  wrote:
> > > >  >  VIOS is probably linux based.  And many of those Linux propeller heads
> > > >  >  aren't as open to GUI as IBM i users are.  At least that's what IBM told
> > > >  >  me when I asked for an enhancement to System i Navigator for Windows
> > > >  >  support for semaphores and threads.  They rejected the request because
> > > >  >  true aficionados of semaphores and threads eschew GUI.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  Rob Berendt
> > >
> > >  --