Re: ZEND PHP for i5

[Alfredo Delgado <adelgado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd be more than happy to have PHP running as an Apache module on the 
native HTTP server like it would on a UNIX system. However, I'm very 
satisfied -- even impressed -- with how PHP on the i5 has performed for 
me running as a CGI in PASE.

Alfred

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Great to see new software ported to the i5.  However I am not a big fan of 
> leaving production applications in the PASE environment.  I'd rather they 
> be ported to "native".  I've been burnt by applications that ran in PASE. 
> Some of the PASE api's were not good for performance.  What happened is 
> that the software vendor then left the i5/os entirely.  But that vendor 
> was IBM and what interest do they have in i5/os?
>
> I am sure that IBM would not have sold the boxes they have if Domino was 
> only supported in PASE.  Instead they did it right, ported it to native 
> and sold iSeries boxes to run Domino like hotcakes.  And the iSeries kicks 
> butt in the Notesbench tests.
>
> Oh, that product that left i5/os was Tivoli Storage Manager from IBM.
>
> Rob Berendt
>