Your co-worker is probably talking with younger folks with little or no exposure to the latest versions of the iSeries environment. She probably doesn't know that the administrator can manage the entire system through a graphical interface known as iSeries Navigator. When I mean the entire system, I am also referring to the hardware. In real time, the admin can allocate system resources to the various partitions, etc.
The iSeries comes with Apache and Tomcat and is a fully robust web server. It is no longer necessary to use green screen terminals to use the applications, because of iSeries Access for the Web. Instead of a green screen, the users log on through a browser, and have full use the green screen application. With complete honesty, I can report that a friend of mine with zero knowledge of web servers, etc. sat down with the manual and had the server and iSeries Access for the Web up and running in less than 2 hours. If you contact me at pnelson88@comcast.net I can put you in touch with the right people at IBM. One friend there does nothing but assist companies in moving from Oracle to the iSeries.
You haven't checked in quite a while. Domino is very stable now. Patches are available via the web now. The Power 5 (soon to be 6) chips are much faster than the PC chips that are available. The product line was introduced in 1988 as a 48 bit processor. When the product line went to 64 bit and from CISC to RISC, the migrations were as simple as restoring your CISC programs and data files to the RISC box, and then running one command to convert the objects. How many Windows environments can say the same? When the 128 bit systems are available, the migrations will be just as simple.
Bill Gates even learned the lesson about screwing up an environment a while back whe he gave the order to replace Microsoft's 23 AS/400's with Wintel servers. He ended up with an environment of 1,250 servers that were still not as scalable as the 23 AS/400 machines. Eventually, they killed the project. In order to avoid being teased about owning AS/400's, Bill created a new company. He sold the AS/400's to the new company. He fired all of the AS/400 people working in that department, and hired them at the new company. Finally, he "outsourced" the AS/400 functions to the new company. Oh, and Microsoft threatened to sue IBM if their people ever repeated this information in public. Nope, I don't work for IBM, but I do make my living working with the iSeries product line. I don't need to go anywhere else, because IBM keeps coming up with enhancements that keep drawing customers to the platform. By the way, there are lots of ERP solutions that run on this system. Plus, it can have partitions that run guest operating systems, including the products from Microsoft.
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Your co-worker is probably talking with younger folks with little or no exposure to the latest versions of the iSeries environment. She probably doesn't know that the administrator can manage the entire system through a graphical interface known as iSeries Navigator. When I mean the entire system, I am also referring to the hardware. In real time, the admin can allocate system resources to the various partitions, etc. The iSeries comes with Apache and Tomcat and is a fully robust web server. It is no longer necessary to use green screen terminals to use the applications, because of iSeries Access for the Web. Instead of a green screen, the users log on through a browser, and have full use the green screen application. With complete honesty, I can report that a friend of mine with zero knowledge of web servers, etc. sat down with the manual and had the server and iSeries Access for the Web up and running in less than 2 hours. If you contact me at pnelson88@comcast.net I can put you in touch with the right people at IBM. One friend there does nothing but assist companies in moving from Oracle to the iSeries.
You haven't checked in quite a while. Domino is very stable now. Patches are available via the web now. The Power 5 (soon to be 6) chips are much faster than the PC chips that are available. The product line was introduced in 1988 as a 48 bit processor. When the product line went to 64 bit and from CISC to RISC, the migrations were as simple as restoring your CISC programs and data files to the RISC box, and then running one command to convert the objects. How many Windows environments can say the same? When the 128 bit systems are available, the migrations will be just as simple.
Bill Gates even learned the lesson about screwing up an environment a while back whe he gave the order to replace Microsoft's 23 AS/400's with Wintel servers. He ended up with an environment of 1,250 servers that were still not as scalable as the 23 AS/400 machines. Eventually, they killed the project. In order to avoid being teased about owning AS/400's, Bill created a new company. He sold the AS/400's to the new company. He fired all of the AS/400 people working in that department, and hired them at the new company. Finally, he "outsourced" the AS/400 functions to the new company. Oh, and Microsoft threatened to sue IBM if their people ever repeated this information in public. Nope, I don't work for IBM, but I do make my living working with the iSeries product line. I don't need to go anywhere else, because IBM keeps coming up with enhancements that keep drawing customers to the platform. By the way, there are lots of ERP solutions that run on this system. Plus, it can have partitions that run guest operating systems, including the products from Microsoft.