Re: afraid to use your System i as your enterprise server? another server will step up to that role

Eric Lehti wrote:

Hey everyone. Help me find in the midrange.com archives the message
thread in which Evan Harris said, (I am paraphrasing) "If you hide your
enterprise server (iSeries) behind a corporate firewall, then the server
that your web visitors can get to will become your enterprise server.
That other server will begin hosting your enterprise data and
applications will be developed to serve that data to the users."

Sounds like so much bovine scat to me.

Assuming that "enterprise server" means where the family jewels (or at least, those portions thereof other than source code) are kept, it doesn't matter WHAT it is, whether OS/400, Linux, WinDoze, Mac, DOS, TRSDOS, CP/M or whatever, it belongs behind a firewall, with any outside access very strictly controlled and monitored, and all passing through a single choke-point that can be quickly and easily cut off (as in physically cut off) at the first sign of a security breach.

As to the most highly classified parts of your proprietary source code, that should be on a box that's ALWAYS PHYSICALLY ISOLATED from ALL network connections, i.e., anything going in or out of it should have to travel on physical media, and nobody should be able to so much as get a sign-on screen for it from outside the building.