Anonymous

Michigan, USA

Consultant

I find it interesting that they claim the AS/400(iSeries) is not strategic because of the Internet. ?? It's base support includes virtualy every IP service available, and most are industry standards (BIND, Apache, etc.) And it's not succeptable to viruses either, what a bonus!

It is also interesting that they chose Java, for which the iSeries has one of, if not THE best JVM on the planet.

With it's built in DB2 database, no Oracle charges would have been incurred and management of DB2 on iSeries is far less costly than Oracle on Any platform.

Finally, 'The AS/400 was hugely reliable, downtimes measured in munuts per year.' Well they're gonna miss that for sure in their new environment. They'll either measure minutes per day or spend a boatload of money to match the AS/400's sparkling uptime stats.