Re: [IBMiOSS] C# decryption port to Power i

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nondescript it ain't, friend Justin. Very powerful platform.

Is it better to make your IBM i into a slow and slightly inadequate Unix
box?

Try running XWindows from PASE sometime.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Using IBM i as just another nondescript DB doesn't sound like an efficient
> use of resources.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 5:35 PM
> To: IBMi Open Source Roundtable
> Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] C# decryption port to Power i
>
> Of course my view of the most efficient path forward with Open Source is
> "install a Linux LPAR and do the fancy stuff there, where it's at home, and
> just slurp the data from the IBM i LPAR".
>
> Not that I don't love PASE. I do love PASE. But trying to make everything
> on Linux work on i seems inefficient in comparison to "Let Linux be Linux,
> let IBM i be IBM i," since every possible mode of connectivity works
> between the two.
>
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