Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, it's your job to define the scope of what is being done and what
audience is being served. The only thing really clear so far is that
you believe the i scales better because you can "add cores".

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > From: Evan Harris
> > It's simplistic to dismiss the server farm as being "too complex"
> > without defining or understanding what that is bringing to the table.
>
> Wouldn't that be your job to define what a server farm brings to the table?
>  Nearly all my applications are written in RPG.  They receive browser requests
> and respond with formatted output (HTML, XML, JSON, injected JavaScript) at
> about the same speed that QZDASOINIT jobs process SQL statements and respond
> with ODBC formatted output.  In that context, a server farm is a waste of space.
>
> -Nathan
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