Re: WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP

["Maurice O'Prey" <maurice.oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron

Well at least the wasted money, as you call it, is already spent and now I'm running top notch web applications on existing hardware ( sounds cool to me )

And I'm not struggling to get things working either!

Kind Regards

Maurice O'Prey
XMLi5 Ltd

On 10 Dec 2010, at 14:38, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I guess I'm used to the real world (or at least the people in charge of
> the real world who pay the bills)?
>
> Flattering yourself will get you no where.  Do you think the majority of the
> people on this list don't live and work in environments that are of high
> priority and up-time?
>
> Maurice, you put silly qualifiers on there to make it a no-win to put addtl
> technology onto IBMi.  Of course a billion dollar company would ask and plan
> *before* putting new technology on a machine.  I would wager they would have
> a dev machine that everything new was test out on.  Some will even put an
> IBMi in the DMZ to keep it even MORE separate from the others.
>
> > Might it not be better ROI to spend a few hundred bucks on a trial
> server (if you don't already have one lying around).
>
> This is where a wise IT manager would look and understand that spending a
> few hundred bucks on a small server could turn into millions of dollars of
> rewriting and maintenance down the road because of not controlling the
> adoption (i.e. Microsoft .NET) of a new technology.  I am on calls a lot
> with customers that are looking to modernize and am amazed at how many
> dollars (i.e. man hours and software licenses) are duplicated because they
> adopt two server stacks (i.e. Microsoft .NET and IBM i).    If that isn't
> wasting money then I don't know what is.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
> www.OpenRPGUI.com
> www.SoftwareSavesLives.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Maurice O'Prey <Maurice.Oprey@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Bryce and Kelly
> >
> > I guess I'm used to the real world (or at least the people in charge of the
> > real world who pay the bills)?.
> >
> > Let's say you have a one billion dollar a year turnover company running
> > their warehousing, despatch and finance systems on the i, these are mission
> > critical boxes and then someone comes along and pops WordPress, Drupal,
> > Joomla, MediaWiki, a bulletin board (phpBB3), a survey package
> > (LimeSurvey),
> > a time tracking package (Kimai Time Tracking) and loads of other stuff
> > without asking. Before you know it the IT Director is putting in for a
> > costly upgrade and wondering why?
> >
> > Might it not be better ROI to spend a few hundred bucks on a trial server
> > (if you don't already have one lying around).  If any of the applications
> > then take on mission critical status you might THEN think about moving them
> > on to the i (taking into account that a number of these applications
> > require
> > 24/7 operation which many houses running the i do not offer?). That alone
> > rules it out aside from other security issues and stability issues.
> >
> > Accepted it is a varied world where no one solution fits all. I'm going
> > with
> > the detached server option for now.
> >
> > - Maurice O'Prey
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