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Although I mostly lurk here, and play around with obsolete hardware some, I
have some thoughts I'd like to share with the group.
It seems that much of the success of the Linux and Windows world is the
fact that people can just download stuff and start playing with it on their
own. It's what they're exposed to, sometimes from a very young age. You
couldn't really do this with IBM i, as one wasn't able to walk into Best
Buy and obtain hardware capable of running it even if it was freely
downloadable.
Even as an outsider, I probably could write a book about what IBM *should*
have done with Power Architecture, and IBM i. The past is the past, though.
So what about cloud? Is IBM using, or planning to, use this as a method of
attracting new interest to the platform? Are there third-parties offering
tools or access to cloud hosted environments for learning and
experimentation? Or is it more of the same - nothing freely available, one
must pay hundreds of dollars for tools or access in order to play around
with it?
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