From: Bob Cancilla
Read details in my blog: http://i-nsider.blogspot.com/
Well Bob, your rhetoric is elevated to a new level of hyperbole against native IBM i languages and interfaces. Sorry, I won't be following your advise to adopt platform-neutral languages & interfaces.
Maybe you should approach SAP. They're platform-neutral friendly. I've been stress testing some of my RPG-based Web applications and comparing the results to SAP benchmarks, among others.
http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx
The benchmarks are similar in that each dialog step generates an HTML / JavaScript response, and most dialog steps perform create, read, & update operations on relational DBMS tables.
SAP's benchmark was run most recently against an HP Blade, 2-processor, 8-core, 16-thread, 48-GB RAM, using Microsoft Server 2008 EE & Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
My most recent Web application benchmark was run against a 2006 ERA Power 5, 1-processor, 1-core, 1-thread, 1-GB RAM, under IBM i.
My comparisons are pretty rough because the applications are not precisely the same, but it appears that my IBM i server is outputting about 50% more dynamically generated web pages, and performing more database transactions.
IBM i often beats other platforms in TCO studies, but it appears to me that in this case, an IBM i platform running native Web applications may be significantly out-performing a WINTEL alternative that has an initial cost of about 5-times more.
-Nathan.
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