Re: Power7 interactive

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Bryce Martin
> Chris, This is true, you do <get> a lot of bundled software, but do end
> users really need that?

IBM i Access.  Navigator.  Web Sever Admin.  Systems Director. PDM.  Rational 
Developer for Power.  STRSQL.  WRKQRY.  Tons of CL Commands and Menus. 
 Individual IBM i user profiles.  Monitoring active jobs by user.  Individual 
message queues.  Individual output queues.  User based authorities.  You could 
probably add a lot of things that people use every day, but often take for 
granted.

> It seems as though you could really keep your costs down by 
> using the web app model if you have hundreds or thousands of users
> on a box.

Well, if somebody were to develop Web interfaces that were as functional & 
capable as 5250 & other IBM interfaces, they'd probably charge for it too.

> The only thing I know of that would hurt this is the ability of the 
> WAS server to handle the save amount of users as 5250 on the same sized 
> box.

That's another factor. Most Web interfaces consume 10-30 times more resources 
than 5250 interfaces.

> So I'm guessing there is a limitation of how much 
> you could take advantage of it anyway.


True, but that won't keep more workloads from moving to web based applications.

-Nathan