Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

Cool, I follow you. Yes, it would be great to follow such a
discussion because I no next to zero about hardware.

My current iSeries (not IBM i) hosting scenario is a V5R3 machine
behind a 20MB/1MB connection. I *wish* I had your connection - THAT'S
fast!

I do believe that if IBM did offer a service for $65/month that they
would probably lose money on that tier - unless they of course were
able to do things in more of a cowboy fashion (i.e. not have to follow
traditional internal flow of processing orders). That's one reason
why I would love if they would just empower the likes of iDevCloud.com
to implement the service (for commercial purposes) and see how it
goes. Nothing wrong with just testing something out to see if it
works - very common to do that in business.

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Aaron,

I don't have a specific point to make, but just throw out the topic for
discussion, mostly in response to your first comment in the social media thread
and in Chris Maxcer's blog.  It appears that www.idevcloud.com is operating
under IBM's academic licensing, which is not what commercial developers need.
 Neither would it work for those wanting to offer cloud-based applications.  IBM
doesn't appear to be very interested in competing against Amazon EC2 and
similar.  So maybe someone else would like to get into the business.  It just
might help to discuss the business model, and what it might take.  I don't have
experience at partitioning servers, so I could learn something too.

-Nathan



----- Original Message ----
From: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, November 12, 2010 2:23:59 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

Hi Nathan,

I am not sure what you are getting at, but I was not implying that I
am interested in hosting a leasable IBM i in the cloud at my house.  I
would rather pay somebody else to do that.  What are you trying to
say?

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



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