Re: Looking for various PHP options running on i

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> My clients who tried to shoehorn the whole legacy modernization onto
> the i itself have all regretted it and moved to multi-tier.
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My experience is exactly the opposite. Those who broke it apart were frustrated by managing multiple physical systems, multiple operating systems, and understanding multiple technologies. They find it much more difficult to control workloads. Often data requests come flooding in which they cannot controll starting hundreds of QZDASOINIT tasks and crushing system performance.

Updating them became more complicated, backing them up became more complicated. Staff needed additional training and additional contract resources were also engaged.

HA becomes much more complicated as well with many more pieces to consider.

One of them, after going the multi-tier path for a few years, chose to move everything back to IBM i. It's gone so well they won an award for their efforts. It runs well, is a single server to maintain and backup and has far less outside resource for maintenance.

Others have simply stayed with IBM i and continued to move forward and avoid the clutter.

IMHO Rube Goldberg need not apply.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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