RE: Time to get serious -- MIDRANGE-L

Honestly, I wouldn't mind seeing more/better iSeries advertising, but be
careful, you've got to get your facts straight: 

>Use SQL if you want, but get even better performance with native
programming.

Native may perform better on iSeries than SQL on iSeries, but that
doesn't mean native on iSeries is better than SQL on another platform.
We've see the results on this list (or maybe ignite, or web400, don't
recall) a small PC with SQLServer blows the doors off a small iSeries
w/SQL. 

>There are no viruses, adware, or spyware written for i5/OS.

Leaving the truth of this claim alone, it's rare (not impossible, just
rare) for viruii to infect well structured _servers_. And adware and
spyware really aren't a concern on a server since you shouldn't be
surfing the net on your production boxes anyway. You'll still have
windows on the desktop so you're not eliminating these issues at all. Or
are you planning on rolling out 5250 tubes?

>Got 150,000 employees?  ... Then you've got email problems.  ...  Then
you'd only need one.

You want to centralize e-mail access for your 150K employees (presumably
around the world, unless you have a really big building) on one server?
Forget server availablility, what about comm lines, and latency?

>A buffer overflow won't crash or compromise an i5.

Um, wanna bet?

>Need more disk space?  Can you add it without rebooting?  Can you make
it 
>usable without rebooting?  Can you spread your data across the new
drives 
>to improve performance (without rebooting)?  The i5 can.

So can windows. Really, it's not that hard.

Look, all your points are great reasons to run the iSeries, but you
can't imply that Windows doesn't do these things, because it does.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+waldenl=techsoftinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+waldenl=techsoftinc.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jones, John (US)
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 1:35 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Time to get serious

I agree.  I'd be careful to not mention RPG specifically.

Use SQL if you want, but get even better performance with native
programming.  Only the i5 has a high-performance, secure database built
in to the OS at no extra cost.

There are no viruses, adware, or spyware written for i5/OS.

Only the i5 can run Windows, 32 and 64 bit Linux, AIX, and i5/OS
applications concurrently on the same hardware.  Windows is a closed,
proprietary OS by comparison.

Got 150,000 employees?  Then you've got email problems.  You're probably
running a dozen or more servers dedicated to email.  Unless you run
Domino on an i5.  Then you'd only need one.  Got less then 150,000
employees?  Isn't it nice to know the i5 can handle your company as it
grows.

A buffer overflow won't crash or compromise an i5.

Need more disk space?  Can you add it without rebooting?  Can you make
it usable without rebooting?  Can you spread your data across the new
drives to improve performance (without rebooting)?  The i5 can.

John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787  F: +1-312-601-1782
john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 12:16 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Time to get serious

I love it...but I can hear folks saying, "But I don't want to generate a
report program!".

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Time to get serious
> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, February 25, 2005 1:24 pm
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" 
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> If Mark and Malcolm and the gang are serious about marketing this 
> time, then I have some suggestions.  They're actually part of a theme.

> Let me lay a couple on you all and see what you think:
> 
>  
> 
> "SQL is good enough for most platforms, and most problems.  But when 
> it's not, you need the raw power of native I/O, the power that only 
> RPG can bring you.  RPG: assembly language for your database, 
> available only on the iSeries!"
> 
>  
> 
> "Your business runs on procedures, not objects.  Don't shoehorn your 
> procedures into a language designed to format HTML - instead, use the 
> best procedural language ever created: RPG.  RPG: designed to write 
> business procedures, and available only on the iSeries."
> 
>  
> 
> ONLY ON THE ISERIES.  ONLY ON THE ISERIES.
> 
>  
> 
> Let's pound that message home.  What do you think?  What else can you 
> think of?
> 
>  
> 
> Joe
> 
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