I run a Zend community edition web server with a mySQL database and Drupal + Mediawiki on my laptop. As long as I'm inside my company firewall and connected to our network, anyone in the company can access the public pages in these sites. And the whole software stack is free.
Obviously, no one would want to run a production system on a laptop. The point is you can do a Dual 2.26 GHz Intel Core2 Duo with 2GB memory when it comes to these packages. One certainly could run some of these packages (especially inside the enterprise) on machines priced well below the cost of a typical IBM i.
Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 1:36 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP
From: Kelly Cookson
Obviously, no one needs the heavy iron of an IBM i just to run a web server
with Wordpress installed. One could do it on a much cheaper server.
When we use terms like "heavy iron" to describe IBM i servers, people may get a
very wrong impression. Particularly when "heavy iron" is accompanied by "One
could do it on a much cheaper server."
I know I'm pulling a quote out of context from a message that is otherwise
supportive of running Wordpress under IBM i, which I'm in favor of too, so I
hope you'll forgive me, but I want to point out that Power servers in and of
themselves cost about the same as comparably equipped Intel servers. In other
words, the "iron" costs about the same.
And when comparing IBM i to Microsoft SQL server, the DBMS costs are comparable
too. But does one need a server+DBMS for Wordpress?
-Nathan
midrange.com
