Re: Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, there was never a version of Microsoft Server that ran _directly_ on 
any version of POWER.  You might be thinking of the various Intel cards 
(IXS) that were on the system and used network servers and storage 
areas  to run.  I have one on my 810 at V5R4 right now.

Microsoft has refused to allow a port to POWER and will not support it 
if it is done.  More importantly, not nearly enough customers are asking 
for it to push IBM into a position where they would care enough to work 
it out with Microsoft.  For its part IBM could get it done very quickly 
if the market demanded it and Microsoft indicated they would support it.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 8/1/2012 3:55 PM, Maurice O'Prey wrote:
> Pete
>
> I must have missed out on something big!!!!
>
> > > >>  Didn't MS have a version of windows that ran on power (early on)? I am
> surprised that IBM didn't pick up and run with.  Imagine how fast Windows
> could crash on a Power 7!  You'd hardly see that blue screen of death.  But
> those constant security updates would apply quicker....;-)
>
> Could you expand on this? (Or do you mean on the IXS?)
>
> Maurice O'Prey
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx  [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Pete Helgren
> Sent: 01 August 2012 20:39
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Getting a pulse for Ruby On Rails on i
>
> Agree with most of what you say but I*would*  expect a .Net guy to like
> jsp's since they are so similar to each other.  Me, I*never*  use jsp's.
> MVC for me HTML served by the FreeMarker template framework with native
> servlets accessing the DB.  jsp's mix and match HTML and Java and don't get
> me started on Struts and Spring (write once and configure EVERYWHERE)....
>
> Most of my stuff is Javascript now that JSON and Ajax are the tools de jore.
> I use Java at the back end because I can write the whole tamale on my laptop
> and deploy to something secure and stable like IBM i.....
>
> Didn't MS have a version of windows that ran on power (early on)? I am
> surprised that IBM didn't pick up and run with.  Imagine how fast Windows
> could crash on a Power 7!  You'd hardly see that blue screen of death.  But
> those constant security updates would apply quicker....;-)
>
> Pete Helgren
> Value Added Software, Inc
> www.petesworkshop.com
> GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
>
> On 8/1/2012 12:53 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:
> > >  Well I've played a bit with Ruby and didn't find it all that compelling.
> > >
> > >  But that's just me:-)
> > >
> > >  JSP is just as easy if not easier and same with Java, so why mix ?
> > >
> > >  Also, I can do a new web or mobile app much, much faster using
> > >  ASP.Net, but those afraid of .Net would not know that fact:-)
> > >
> > >  RPG isn't bad either.  Anyone seen my jQueryMobile sample yet ?:-)
> > >
> > >  I'm still irked by the fact that IBM doesn't embrace MS technology on the
> i, especially when their own internal team did an R&D project to port the
> Mono runtime to PASE/AIX and it got deep-sixed.
> > >
> > >  When I have more free get time to learn another new language just for
> > >  fun it will probably be Javascript as that's more and more the UI
> > >  language of choice:-)
> > >
> > >  Regards,
> > >  Richard Schoen
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