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Aaron Bartell wrote>>
Does Zend have any public PHP "success stories" of PHP on the IBMi? I know
lots on this forum have had success, but they were already on the IBMi. I
am looking for a story where somebody actually made the move and provided
reasons for WHY they chose the more expensive IBMi over other servers.

It would be great to see IBMSystemsMag.com do such a story!
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Hi Aaron;

When we are discussing PHP this way it is actually a discussion on the
price
and the appeal of the LAMP stack v.s. iADP stack (Linux Apache mySQL PHP)
vs. ("i" Apache DB/2 PHP).

Unfortunately for IBM ( and us), LAPM is so easy to jump on. Thousand of
internet providers give you a virtual LAPM stack for a couple a bucks a
month. And you can experiment with it on a warn out PC.

I don't think you will find a lot of PHP newbies on the "i" out there.
However, PHP is a great migration path for IBMi customers and maybe or
maybe
not abandon the IBMi ship and move to other platforms.

One story though is maybe the University of Gothenburg. I know they are
using the "i" for all kind of stuff, and teaching PHP and java on the box.
I
know because I was up there teaching application modernization using
IceBreak.

I have a number of success stories where we have killed some windows
servers
with the "i", however it was not thanks to PHP. It has always bee where we
had a turnkey solution... add water and you have a party.

In these cases we have sold the complete solution and never talked about
what was under the hood of the black box. We sold it on "total cost of
ownership". And it works.....

If we had talked of RPG or IceBreak we would had left the party before it
began. However, we had success selling new "i"s to customers who never had
"i"s before counting prominent names like Ford motors, Mazda motors among
others.

If you like it I can send you lots of case stories where out customers has
purchased new "i"s and switched off the windoze.

The key here is the tons of legacy code we have written in RPG and now
migrated and orchestrated as webservices by IceBreak. This garnished with
new funky UI in extJS - to a sub low total price... does the trick.

Just to underline my point that PHP is a super great tool but is not the
salvation for the "i" - but rewiring the legacy code is. So the answer to
your question is: few.

Syd is backing my point if I read him right: