Re: Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

No, there was never a version of Microsoft Server that ran _directly_ on
any version of POWER. You might be thinking of the various Intel cards
(IXS) that were on the system and used network servers and storage
areas to run. I have one on my 810 at V5R4 right now.

Microsoft has refused to allow a port to POWER and will not support it
if it is done. More importantly, not nearly enough customers are asking
for it to push IBM into a position where they would care enough to work
it out with Microsoft. For its part IBM could get it done very quickly
if the market demanded it and Microsoft indicated they would support it.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 8/1/2012 3:55 PM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:

Pete

I must have missed out on something big!!!!

Didn't MS have a version of windows that ran on power (early on)? I am

surprised that IBM didn't pick up and run with. Imagine how fast Windows
could crash on a Power 7! You'd hardly see that blue screen of death. But
those constant security updates would apply quicker....;-)

Could you expand on this? (Or do you mean on the IXS?)

Maurice O'Prey




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Sent: 01 August 2012 20:39
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

Agree with most of what you say but I*would* expect a .Net guy to like
jsp's since they are so similar to each other. Me, I*never* use jsp's.
MVC for me HTML served by the FreeMarker template framework with native
servlets accessing the DB. jsp's mix and match HTML and Java and don't get
me started on Struts and Spring (write once and configure EVERYWHERE)....

Most of my stuff is Javascript now that JSON and Ajax are the tools de jore.
I use Java at the back end because I can write the whole tamale on my laptop
and deploy to something secure and stable like IBM i.....

Didn't MS have a version of windows that ran on power (early on)? I am
surprised that IBM didn't pick up and run with. Imagine how fast Windows
could crash on a Power 7! You'd hardly see that blue screen of death. But
those constant security updates would apply quicker....;-)

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software, Inc
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java

On 8/1/2012 12:53 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:

Well I've played a bit with Ruby and didn't find it all that compelling.

But that's just me:-)

JSP is just as easy if not easier and same with Java, so why mix ?

Also, I can do a new web or mobile app much, much faster using
ASP.Net, but those afraid of .Net would not know that fact:-)

RPG isn't bad either. Anyone seen my jQueryMobile sample yet ?:-)

I'm still irked by the fact that IBM doesn't embrace MS technology on the

i, especially when their own internal team did an R&D project to port the
Mono runtime to PASE/AIX and it got deep-sixed.

When I have more free get time to learn another new language just for
fun it will probably be Javascript as that's more and more the UI
language of choice:-)

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