Re: MySQL on System i

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> I'm just trying to think through the scenarios here, and if the idea is to
> bring LAMP applications to the System i, you can already do that through a
> Linux partition.  What is the benefit of turning i5/OS into a PHP/MySQL box?

> From my perspective, it would bring the robustness of DB2/400 (DB2/i5?)
to PHP applications.

> Wouldn't that tend to squeeze RPG out of the picture?

Not really ... PHP is primarily a web UI language (at least IMO) ...
similar to JSP.  I would suggest that an organization use PHP for their
web front end, with RPG doing the heavy lifting.  Obviously that
requires a mechanism to invoke RPG from PHP ... but I don't know if that
exists yet.

> I suppose anything that brings users to the box is good, but do you want to
> support business applications written in PHP and MySQL?

There are a lot of applications that already exist, that will now be
able to benefit from the robustness of the platform.

JMO, of course.

david