Re: IBM is so confusing!

["Tom Huff" <tehuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why Linux ?

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Raul A. Jager W.
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 6:14 AM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for
System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] IBM is so confusing!

The best will be to upgrade to Linux.

Tom Huff wrote:
> I don't have any goats to sacrifice. I do have one horse though. Is it
> better to upgrade a PC from Vista to Windows 7 or just buy a new machine
> with Win 7 already installed ?
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On
> Behalf Of Dave Shaw
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 5:14 PM
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Clientfor
> System i & iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] IBM is so confusing!
>
> My experience is that 2 GB on XP is roughly equal to 3 GB on Win 7 32-bit 
> which is roughly equal to maxing out memory on Vista and sacrificing a
goat 
> every day. (grin)
>
> Seriously, the upgrade from Vista to Win 7 is worth it for anyone trying
to 
> do real work, just for the performance boost.  Just my opinion, of course.
>
> Moving from XP to Win 7 is more a matter of support and security concerns,

> and in my opinion isn't worth doing on most existing hardware.
>
> Sadly, my WDSCI 7.0 installation on Win 7 32-bit runs perfectly, so I
can't 
> use that argument to get RDP 8, either.  Sigh.
>
> Dave Shaw
> Mohawk Industries
>
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> From: "Tom Huff" <tehuff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:05 PM
> To: "'Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio
> ClientforSystemi & iSeries'" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] IBM is so confusing!
>
> > That is the same amount of memory I have. If I have WDSC V7 running, I 
> > can't
> > get that much open. Two browser sessions(Multiple tabs), Outlook, Several
> > emails, 4 Explorer sessions, 4 5250 sessions WDSC. If I try to open 
> > anything
> > else, the system tends to take a long time and sometimes hangs. I am 
> > running
> > Vista though.