What I think will always be slanted. What I say in my blog and in my circles is always going to be slanted with my thoughts.
FREE SPEECH is not supposed to be regulated.
As you can see by the user name I am familiar with the System i (AS/400 & iSeries) you speak of. I have been on the System i for over 17 years. I am also a devote Linux and UNIX user and admin. I am not a shill for IBM but I have been known to let Microsoft have it from time to time. Also I use my MacBook Pro while working on my photography so in the end I have no master.
I do know a good thing when I see it. The System i is by far the most powerful system in most of the data centers around the world. We can run down a short list of companies that run the System i. This should give each of you some understanding as to why it is the finest and most stable OS around.
Coke
Pepsi
Cingular
Jack Henry & Assoc - 80% of your Banks run this software and platform
SEARS
Target
Wal-Mart
KMART
Samsonite
SYSCO
Vistar
US Foods
Cargill
State, County and Local Cities all over the US
Cabellas - They have a huge System i and commonly outgrow then weeks after they are installed.
The list could go on for days and days but this is a mere scratch of the surface. I agree with StateMachine on his comments and find them all to be true. I am and have been in the past in a large company with over 3000 employees, one production System i and one admin for it. I would also add that before I arrived as my current job no one had been on the system doing anything of substance for about a year and it had been running like a champ. It's a very easy box to admin. While Linux and UNIX is nice it's not half as easy as the System i and i5/OS.
I think in the end the System i wins. I would like to see the System i put head to head with some Sun E equipment running Oracle or JDE and see what the numbers are like. I was apart of a JAVA transaction test in 2001 where the System i and Sun went head to head and the System i spanked it all over the place running 64 bit Java from IBM.
Thanks for the post and comments!
David
System76.com
While I am no fan of DELL, the Kmart of computers. They barley support business and when it comes to personal computers they are just a sad little company. They don't care about support and they really don't care about Ubuntu. It's a PR thing more than it a real attempt to offer something other than Windows. DELL has once again shot themselves in the foot with this one.
Call Carl @ System76.com and ask him to hook you up. They are a top rate Ubuntu store with killer support. Forget DELL they are to big and to widget driven to care about anything else.
-David
So when you are fined and are put on trial will it be time to turn them in or will that be a good time to just do what they tell you. Turn them in. If they are doing business in the real world they either need to pay for the tools their employee use to get their work done or need to look at FREE alternatives. Turn them in and then leave because they don't value you if they would ask you to do something like that.
Funny I was watching Field of Dreams last night.....I think he just needs to get building. It's going to be slow at first but like everything once you get used to it the speed and experience will come. Give it some time.
Coding is like a Fine Wine you have to really work at it hard in the beginning and then let is build up and eventually you will get a great great thing in the end..... The Uber Coders are freaks of nature anyway....I would love to be able to code like a beast but I have to work at it too.
I would agree with that. Well Said. He just needs to get in there and get busy. I think this is the same problem most f us have with possessions. We see our parents with lots of stuff and think instantly that we should have all that stuff too....little do we consider that they have been getting stuff for over 40 years or more and we want all that stuff in a few years....it takes time.
Again there is proof positive that college is what you make of it. I am going to go ahead and shoot myself in my own foot on this one, but I skipped college and Now I am doing pretty well and an iSeries Systems Admin with a little UNIX here and there too. I have seen plenty of college grads who could not build aPC from scratch much less handle things in the real world of IT.
I think the best coders out there today are the one who live it day in and day out. They code at work and they code even more at home.
College is a place to teach you how to learn. Not a place to teach you how to work.
I would suggest this to you. Learn to be confident in your abilities or at least fake it and puff out your chest a bit when you talk. Also you might want to lock the doors and stop washing and get knee deep in some code.
Yo may be able to edit some C code but until you can get dirty in some god forsaken project and come out on top you going to be the first on out of a job when they resize the company.
Either be a Geek and get busy or give it up and head over to sales. I think you prolly have the skills to be a pretty good geek! I mean you already read Slashdot and that is getting you half way there already.
While I do not know anyone who works for Google I have been a fan of Google and where they are going in the market for my own personal financial reasons....STOCK. I notice every time they take a camera inside Google or have photos of Google people they are using Macs. I am a Mac user and I understand that the majority of desktops are Windows, but I always wondered why Google we not publicly more PRO-Mac since they subscribe to that philosophy internally. I know I read somewhere about 3 years ago they employees were encouraged to choose a mac Desktop due to the ease of use and security of the platform. I would like to see more Pr-Mac companies out there or at least offer your employees the options to pick what they run....Windows, Linux or Mac?
OK. Qucik. Love Apple. Love the slick designs. Hate DELL and the boring computers they put out. GM should start building Porsches too! Please! At least give Lenovo a shot at it? Sheesssh
Everything you know about Notes has to be thrown out the window with the next version. You have to understand that and start working from there. Lotus knows that they needed to retool Notes and they have. So give it soem time and wait to see what Hanover looks like in the end. It's going to be good if they deliver what they say they are.
Please go ahead and point out all the problems with Notes, other than the fact that you dont know how to use it? And you think Outlook would be better? Really? If you want to use Outlook there is a connector for Outlook to Domino. You can get it off the server and use Outlook and it works the same way as notes for all of you who hate to use Notes. I hate to use Outlook so I guess we are even. I know the hell that is Exchange and Outlook.
What are you talking about Bloated? Look at what else is out there. Office? Is that not bloated as all get out? And Open Office is not so light either. If you look at what IBM has done with Workplace and some of the open standards in there with editing docs and power points you will see that they might actually be on the right track. Plus they have completely retooled the client....in reality Notes is no more....long live Notes for now call Hanover.
I think we get stuck in a rut thinking that Office and Open Office is the only way to do things. What if you had one client that was your office and did it all pretty well without all the crap? Most users of Office only use about 5% of the features anyway so why not deliver a good tool set to edit things in the email collaboration software and keep the users with one app vs. oh 8 from Microsoft?
I think IBM and Lotus are on the right track with Hanover and Workplace. I'll take a wait and see approach to this but a good many large companies run Domino and Notes and they are really looking forward to it.
-David
I for one think there are bigger things down there, after 5 years in the Navy and I was at sea for 3 of those years I tend to think there are some huge things at the bottom of the sea that would scare the hell out of all of us. I could explain more but it's late and I am saving it for my book.
I was apart of the first bunch or regulars to get to look at LPARs on the iSeries back in 2000. Thay are great. The AiX group gave us HMC and as a side note my brand new 570 with the HMC showed up this AM and man I am giddy!
I like you Brunson (Not like that.) your my kind or "Sailor" and Bad-ass and latley I am not sure if even Jesus loves me. Thanks for the comments. Nice to see that there is someone smart in Colorado.
Rock On Power/5....I need to keep my job!
What did you say....huh....Fanboy? Yes. You have to be a fan of something! I have no idea what you were saying, but I sure wished I did. Man you sure are smart. Sadly mistaken. I really don't think so, but time will tell and so far what we have seen is I am winning that argument already.
If you are looking for a $999 server I think you might be looking in the wrong place. If you are going to haul freight you don't go get a Toyota Pickup with a 4 banger. You go get a Big Rig and get hauling. If you have an application that is a heavy load you go get a Power/5 and you might pay more but you know it is going to hold up under the strain of the load. You can get a small Power5 System from IBM for around $9000 and the same HP or DELL would not cost much less, but then again you need to think about downtime and server reliability.
I can get 99.999% uptime out of my iSeries that was a "Cheap" one, We don't have any "Cheap" windows or Novell servers here that can stand up to that and you have to consider too the IBM support network and hardware replacement team too. I can get stuff replaced in hours not days or weeks. IBM shows up and replaces the failing part....for a cost, but it is well worth it for a 24/7 data center. In the end the Power/5 package is far cheaper long term than and Intel solution. No matter what OS you are running. Although the only OS you can run on Power/5 are so freaking stable you actually get to be an admin vs. be a patch boy all the time with your "Cheap" server running Windows or even Linux in some cases.
I wonder if you could have put a liittle more thought into that comment. I woudl agree with you on some points, but I am not sure which parts you don't like.
Well then in that case the next SONY Playstation would have be a failure for your comments to be true, and since I would guess that I am going to get a new Playstation and so is the 10 guys near my desk I can assume that the majority of the world will be using Power/5 and the same technology that makes the iSeries work like a champ. Althought on a smaller scale but none the less not to far from what is running my iSeries right now, just in a smaller form factor.
Now you can take the Power/5 hardware that runs the iSeries and run Linux, AiX, OS/400 or i5OS, zOS is next and the list is growing. IBM has a few large deals in the works like SONY to keep the Power/5 moving out the door. So have no fear the Power/5 is the next big thing and the way IBM is positioning it there should be many more things in our world that are running on Power/5.....
Next thing you'll tell me is that Playstations and Blenders do not count as real devices?
Then entire world will move to POWER in the next 10 years. POWER 5 is where it's going folks. Great IBM Hardware is paving the way for the great OSs of the world to run like champs. I have been an AS/400 now iSeries Admin for over 15 years and POWER/5 is awesome. Good to see some Slashdot coverage on the topic of POWER. IBM is still trying to figure out what to do with LINUX and maybe this is it. Will have to wait and see what happens next.
I know this is going to come out all wrong, but I have been a mail admin for a while and if you could use multipal servers under one domain Lotus Domino on iSeries is by far the most stable mail collaberation product on the market. I know no one likes Notes, but it is stable and the iSeries is by far the most stabel production machine on the earth right now next to a mainframe and solaris. You can run Domino on Solaris too and you should be ok there too. There is great fail over services.
Don't think because it's an IBM product too that it's big and crappy. Remeber that IBM purchased Lotus and it's stilll a great product and just keeps getting better. You can put tons of user on each Domino server and agin it's stable too.
That is all for now. Yes I said Lotus Domino and Notes......what you going to do about it? No I did not use spell check.
I am with you on this one. I still have a windows PC, but it rearly gets used. I have to use one at work, but that is changing. MacOSX is right on, I am not going to say bad things about MS, I am not going to go and tell you they crash and suck, I just like MacOSX more, and that is all I have to say about that.
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What I think will always be slanted. What I say in my blog and in my circles is always going to be slanted with my thoughts. FREE SPEECH is not supposed to be regulated.
As you can see by the user name I am familiar with the System i (AS/400 & iSeries) you speak of. I have been on the System i for over 17 years. I am also a devote Linux and UNIX user and admin. I am not a shill for IBM but I have been known to let Microsoft have it from time to time. Also I use my MacBook Pro while working on my photography so in the end I have no master. I do know a good thing when I see it. The System i is by far the most powerful system in most of the data centers around the world. We can run down a short list of companies that run the System i. This should give each of you some understanding as to why it is the finest and most stable OS around. Coke Pepsi Cingular Jack Henry & Assoc - 80% of your Banks run this software and platform SEARS Target Wal-Mart KMART Samsonite SYSCO Vistar US Foods Cargill State, County and Local Cities all over the US Cabellas - They have a huge System i and commonly outgrow then weeks after they are installed. The list could go on for days and days but this is a mere scratch of the surface. I agree with StateMachine on his comments and find them all to be true. I am and have been in the past in a large company with over 3000 employees, one production System i and one admin for it. I would also add that before I arrived as my current job no one had been on the system doing anything of substance for about a year and it had been running like a champ. It's a very easy box to admin. While Linux and UNIX is nice it's not half as easy as the System i and i5/OS. I think in the end the System i wins. I would like to see the System i put head to head with some Sun E equipment running Oracle or JDE and see what the numbers are like. I was apart of a JAVA transaction test in 2001 where the System i and Sun went head to head and the System i spanked it all over the place running 64 bit Java from IBM. Thanks for the post and comments! David
System76.com While I am no fan of DELL, the Kmart of computers. They barley support business and when it comes to personal computers they are just a sad little company. They don't care about support and they really don't care about Ubuntu. It's a PR thing more than it a real attempt to offer something other than Windows. DELL has once again shot themselves in the foot with this one. Call Carl @ System76.com and ask him to hook you up. They are a top rate Ubuntu store with killer support. Forget DELL they are to big and to widget driven to care about anything else. -David
So when you are fined and are put on trial will it be time to turn them in or will that be a good time to just do what they tell you. Turn them in. If they are doing business in the real world they either need to pay for the tools their employee use to get their work done or need to look at FREE alternatives. Turn them in and then leave because they don't value you if they would ask you to do something like that.
Funny I was watching Field of Dreams last night.....I think he just needs to get building. It's going to be slow at first but like everything once you get used to it the speed and experience will come. Give it some time. Coding is like a Fine Wine you have to really work at it hard in the beginning and then let is build up and eventually you will get a great great thing in the end..... The Uber Coders are freaks of nature anyway....I would love to be able to code like a beast but I have to work at it too.
I would agree with that. Well Said. He just needs to get in there and get busy. I think this is the same problem most f us have with possessions. We see our parents with lots of stuff and think instantly that we should have all that stuff too....little do we consider that they have been getting stuff for over 40 years or more and we want all that stuff in a few years....it takes time.
Again there is proof positive that college is what you make of it. I am going to go ahead and shoot myself in my own foot on this one, but I skipped college and Now I am doing pretty well and an iSeries Systems Admin with a little UNIX here and there too. I have seen plenty of college grads who could not build aPC from scratch much less handle things in the real world of IT. I think the best coders out there today are the one who live it day in and day out. They code at work and they code even more at home. College is a place to teach you how to learn. Not a place to teach you how to work. I would suggest this to you. Learn to be confident in your abilities or at least fake it and puff out your chest a bit when you talk. Also you might want to lock the doors and stop washing and get knee deep in some code. Yo may be able to edit some C code but until you can get dirty in some god forsaken project and come out on top you going to be the first on out of a job when they resize the company. Either be a Geek and get busy or give it up and head over to sales. I think you prolly have the skills to be a pretty good geek! I mean you already read Slashdot and that is getting you half way there already.
While I do not know anyone who works for Google I have been a fan of Google and where they are going in the market for my own personal financial reasons....STOCK. I notice every time they take a camera inside Google or have photos of Google people they are using Macs. I am a Mac user and I understand that the majority of desktops are Windows, but I always wondered why Google we not publicly more PRO-Mac since they subscribe to that philosophy internally. I know I read somewhere about 3 years ago they employees were encouraged to choose a mac Desktop due to the ease of use and security of the platform. I would like to see more Pr-Mac companies out there or at least offer your employees the options to pick what they run....Windows, Linux or Mac?
OK. Qucik. Love Apple. Love the slick designs. Hate DELL and the boring computers they put out. GM should start building Porsches too! Please! At least give Lenovo a shot at it? Sheesssh
Nope still kicking with over 125 million users. Microsoft should be very afraid of what Lotus is fix'in to whip out.
Everything you know about Notes has to be thrown out the window with the next version. You have to understand that and start working from there. Lotus knows that they needed to retool Notes and they have. So give it soem time and wait to see what Hanover looks like in the end. It's going to be good if they deliver what they say they are.
Please go ahead and point out all the problems with Notes, other than the fact that you dont know how to use it? And you think Outlook would be better? Really? If you want to use Outlook there is a connector for Outlook to Domino. You can get it off the server and use Outlook and it works the same way as notes for all of you who hate to use Notes. I hate to use Outlook so I guess we are even. I know the hell that is Exchange and Outlook.
What are you talking about Bloated? Look at what else is out there. Office? Is that not bloated as all get out? And Open Office is not so light either. If you look at what IBM has done with Workplace and some of the open standards in there with editing docs and power points you will see that they might actually be on the right track. Plus they have completely retooled the client....in reality Notes is no more....long live Notes for now call Hanover. I think we get stuck in a rut thinking that Office and Open Office is the only way to do things. What if you had one client that was your office and did it all pretty well without all the crap? Most users of Office only use about 5% of the features anyway so why not deliver a good tool set to edit things in the email collaboration software and keep the users with one app vs. oh 8 from Microsoft? I think IBM and Lotus are on the right track with Hanover and Workplace. I'll take a wait and see approach to this but a good many large companies run Domino and Notes and they are really looking forward to it. -David
I for one think there are bigger things down there, after 5 years in the Navy and I was at sea for 3 of those years I tend to think there are some huge things at the bottom of the sea that would scare the hell out of all of us. I could explain more but it's late and I am saving it for my book.
I was apart of the first bunch or regulars to get to look at LPARs on the iSeries back in 2000. Thay are great. The AiX group gave us HMC and as a side note my brand new 570 with the HMC showed up this AM and man I am giddy!
I like you Brunson (Not like that.) your my kind or "Sailor" and Bad-ass and latley I am not sure if even Jesus loves me. Thanks for the comments. Nice to see that there is someone smart in Colorado. Rock On Power/5....I need to keep my job!
What did you say....huh....Fanboy? Yes. You have to be a fan of something! I have no idea what you were saying, but I sure wished I did. Man you sure are smart. Sadly mistaken. I really don't think so, but time will tell and so far what we have seen is I am winning that argument already.
It's really not mush more expensive.
If you are looking for a $999 server I think you might be looking in the wrong place. If you are going to haul freight you don't go get a Toyota Pickup with a 4 banger. You go get a Big Rig and get hauling. If you have an application that is a heavy load you go get a Power/5 and you might pay more but you know it is going to hold up under the strain of the load. You can get a small Power5 System from IBM for around $9000 and the same HP or DELL would not cost much less, but then again you need to think about downtime and server reliability.
I can get 99.999% uptime out of my iSeries that was a "Cheap" one, We don't have any "Cheap" windows or Novell servers here that can stand up to that and you have to consider too the IBM support network and hardware replacement team too. I can get stuff replaced in hours not days or weeks. IBM shows up and replaces the failing part....for a cost, but it is well worth it for a 24/7 data center. In the end the Power/5 package is far cheaper long term than and Intel solution. No matter what OS you are running. Although the only OS you can run on Power/5 are so freaking stable you actually get to be an admin vs. be a patch boy all the time with your "Cheap" server running Windows or even Linux in some cases.
I wonder if you could have put a liittle more thought into that comment. I woudl agree with you on some points, but I am not sure which parts you don't like.
I would agree with that. Virtulization is a very hot topic right now.
Well then in that case the next SONY Playstation would have be a failure for your comments to be true, and since I would guess that I am going to get a new Playstation and so is the 10 guys near my desk I can assume that the majority of the world will be using Power/5 and the same technology that makes the iSeries work like a champ. Althought on a smaller scale but none the less not to far from what is running my iSeries right now, just in a smaller form factor. Now you can take the Power/5 hardware that runs the iSeries and run Linux, AiX, OS/400 or i5OS, zOS is next and the list is growing. IBM has a few large deals in the works like SONY to keep the Power/5 moving out the door. So have no fear the Power/5 is the next big thing and the way IBM is positioning it there should be many more things in our world that are running on Power/5..... Next thing you'll tell me is that Playstations and Blenders do not count as real devices?
Then entire world will move to POWER in the next 10 years. POWER 5 is where it's going folks. Great IBM Hardware is paving the way for the great OSs of the world to run like champs. I have been an AS/400 now iSeries Admin for over 15 years and POWER/5 is awesome. Good to see some Slashdot coverage on the topic of POWER. IBM is still trying to figure out what to do with LINUX and maybe this is it. Will have to wait and see what happens next.
I know this is going to come out all wrong, but I have been a mail admin for a while and if you could use multipal servers under one domain Lotus Domino on iSeries is by far the most stable mail collaberation product on the market. I know no one likes Notes, but it is stable and the iSeries is by far the most stabel production machine on the earth right now next to a mainframe and solaris. You can run Domino on Solaris too and you should be ok there too. There is great fail over services. Don't think because it's an IBM product too that it's big and crappy. Remeber that IBM purchased Lotus and it's stilll a great product and just keeps getting better. You can put tons of user on each Domino server and agin it's stable too. That is all for now. Yes I said Lotus Domino and Notes......what you going to do about it? No I did not use spell check.
No the raise question is funny. It's very open ended. Did you not read anything other then the post right above yours?
I am with you on this one. I still have a windows PC, but it rearly gets used. I have to use one at work, but that is changing. MacOSX is right on, I am not going to say bad things about MS, I am not going to go and tell you they crash and suck, I just like MacOSX more, and that is all I have to say about that.