Jun 22 2008 2:56AM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
i for business,
i on Power,
IBM i,
i,
PHP on i
Link to the POST- Mike Pavlak
Zend Blog
”I got the chance to attend the php|tek conference in Chicago last week and it really opened my eyes to a lot of things. You see, the event was attended mostly by members of the PHP community supporting the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP…) stack. Since I was probably the ONLY i5 guy at the event I felt a little out of place. Aside from being over dressed (I wore a collared shirt) nearly everyone I talked to had not heard of the i5. And when Andi Gutmans, Zend Founder and CTO, gave the keynote and mentioned the i5 twice, nary a head was turning. But that’s OK. Maybe next year we will see a considerable improvement in the i5 community attendance, if you catch my drift.”
Great line from the post:
“Oh yeah, we got it easy…One of the sessions I attended was given by a network professional who specializes in clustering lots of little Intel boxes in order to scale PHP websites. I guess this is a cool thing for the Intel world. It involves a lot of complicated networking and servers and more. He went on and on about BGP and round robin DNS and all kinds of topics. The room was packed and the entire audience was absorbed! People really wanted to hear what this guy had to say. If only they knew. If only they were aware of the power of the Power systems like the IBM i. It was everything I could do to keep from shouting “Go get an i”! Maybe I should have. But, then again, I’d have to explain the benefit of scaling vertically vs. scaling horizontally. The benefits of having IBM on the speed dial and the fact that they can make a new machine appear out of thin air as long as your Business Partner completes the paperwork properly and on time”
Jun 22 2008 2:48AM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
David on System i,
i for business,
i on Power,
IBM i,
AIX on Power,
Domino on System i,
i,
Linux in System i,
System i,
Apple,
SUN,
Linux,
FreeBSD,
Ubuntu,
Lotus,
Linux on POWER,
Lotus News,
OpenSolaris,
POWER Systems
I am working on a new site, so between work, this site, writting for Search400 (which I hope they change the name of soon) and family, I have also found little time to start building a new site that will in the end be a hub for all things POWER based. I have to bring the community together under one web site.
So with that said, I am going to need people to provide content for the site. I need really dedicated insane people to help build the community from all parts of this equation. IBM i, AIX, Linux on Power, and POWER hardware. We need to come together in a big way and share. I am also going to cover Lotus, Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, OpenSuSE, FreeBSD and other things that interest me that I think are changing the way IT does IT.
Please send me an email and I will get you in on the fun, and if you know Joomla that would be great too…I am no expert on that CMS kit.
Jun 13 2008 12:49PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
IBM i,
David on System i,
i on Power,
i,
IBM POWER Blades,
AIX on Power,
System i,
News,
Linux,
POWER Systems
COMMON 2008 announced the POWER platform. Which is of course just brilliant. The IBM i is now just an OS, and to beat all that IBM released some new blades that are POWER based, so in fact you could run any of the the greatest OSes on the face of the earth on them, IBM i, AIX, or Linux, so why are they not selling. I think it’s just a matter of time and IBM doing what they don’t do best, marketing.
I have tried everything to get the company I work for to replace some older System i units with Power Blades but they have the same fears that is pointed out by this article by Mark Fontecchio.
I would urge anyone who has a need for 515 and 525(520) based server to really take a long hard look at blades. I think over time you will see the blades are actually cheaper.
Jun 9 2008 1:14PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
Employment,
Employment on System i,
i on Power,
IBM News,
i,
Salaries on System i
I know the title is rather scary and not “real” but the truth of the matter is this. The companies that run the i are slowly moving away and the people knowing the i are getting older, hence those two factors are driving companies away from the platform. The next big problem is how do you get job on what is considered an “old” platform, even though UNIX is harder to use, more expensive to own and a pain at times, it still has 93 times more job postings. It’s hard to understand and will make your head explode if you try to think about it to long.
IT Jungle has written a great article on the matter and I wanted to share it with y’all.
“Anyway, just for kicks, I ran some queries against these three job sites looking for the number of times specific hardware platforms or operating systems were mentioned, and I did not try every possible operating system and every possible platform name.”
LINK
Jun 5 2008 2:40PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
Other Blogs,
David on System i,
i on Power,
IBM News,
i,
System i
I found this blog the other day and find it interesting. I just wanted to share it with you and hope you all enjoy it too.
LINK - IBM Eye
May 29 2008 8:23PM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
i for business,
i on Power,
i,
System i,
POWER Systems
After what has been a pretty quiet week, and a few weeks of nothing much from IBM about anything at all and more over not much in the way of the i. I was reading around the web and found a nice little article about “Becoming a System-i-Vangelist”, at least the name is catchy.
I like the part about learning the cheer!
“It’s the Power and the i, stupid! Bid a fond farewell to “AS/400″ and “iSeries” and even “System i.” It’s IBM Power Systems. It’s IBM i (”for Business”), not OS/400 or i5/OS. (Okay, V5R4 and earlier are still i5/OS, but you get the idea.) The more unified your terminology is, the stronger your message is. (By the way, IBM swears it won’t change the name again.)”
I think it’s important to be able to make the corner IBM is all asking us to make, but in order for it to work you have to stay on the ball and not call it the AS/400 please.
I was of course dissappointed that Trevor Perry Angus the IT Chap was mentioned and not yours truly. I would think that if you are passonate about the i and you want to share your thoughts, ideas, and opinions about it I would recommend you start a blog or something that people out there can find. Trust me they are looking and the hits go up everyday for people looking for one of the most stable, hard working server platforms in IT right now! the i running on POWER.
“Don’t hide IBM Power Systems under a bushel. The worst thing you can do is make them a “black box” to those around you. In my experience, the biggest job protection comes from sharing information and growing the footprint and value of IT in your firm. The companies in the most danger of having the platform pushed away are those in which the Power Systems people build a wall around their “strange practices.” That is the road to ruin.”
May 20 2008 1:11AM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
David on System i,
i for business,
i on Power,
i,
System i
I like every one still call the i all kinds of things. Which is of course bad but I like others in the industry want to know the following things?
- What do you call the i now?
- What do you call the i in conversations with peers?
- What do you call the i in conversations with executives or senior level staff?
- What do you call the i in private?
- What do you call me in private?
- Is the name change to i a good one?
- Do you like the idea of one price on box?
- Do you also run AIX in your IT shop?
- Does it make you crazy when others call it the AS/400?
- Does it make you crazy when others call it the iSeries?
- Do you get a warm felling when someone says I still have a System/36?
I can go ahead and get the ball rolling:
- i
- i or System i
- i or AS/400 - Most of them still call it the AS/400 so when in Rome…..I try to say AS/400 or i and then always say i
- My little treasure
- David
- Yes
- Yes
- I have and would if I could YES!
- YES - CRAZY!
- Not Really but YES
- Of course - but not like if they said Macintosh Classic II
May 20 2008 1:03AM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
David on System i,
i for business,
i on Power,
IBM News,
i,
System i
Link to Site
Make sure you reserve your place at the 2008 IT Leaders Forum in Denver. If you are in Denver, and I know some of you are, this would be a great place to meet other IT Leaders from around the country. It looks like it will be a blast and has some really great speakers too.
“Combine business with pleasure at the 2008 IT Leaders Forum in beautiful Colorado! Enjoy the unmatched scenery and summer activities and learn from the industry’s top experts.”
May 6 2008 2:28AM GMT
Posted by: David Vasta
i,
MySQL on i,
PHP on i,
David on System i,
i on Power,
Linux in System i,
i for business
Now I am no developer, and when I say NO I mean NO so I am going to need some help making the connection. Seems as if the move for developers from Windows XP to Vista was a big one and may have been mishandled by Microsoft. Are we as an i community doing the same thing? Should we abandon RPG, COBOL, FORTRAN for the likes of JAVA, PHP and C?
Now being someone who likes new and shiny things I would say yes. I think the i attaching itself to PHP and MySQL is a step in the right direction and of course IBM have no idea how to foster that growth, and when I say that I mean no disrespect to IBM but, IBM sucks at build new communities. They don’t make things open source, and they don’t see FREE as a way to help. The recent Lotus movement where after OpenNTF being open for god knows how long now gets some attention from IBM is truly sad.
IBM should of course support the older languages, but should really place more emphasis on the new technology that is going to drive the system into a new era. Are we as i people destined for the same ill reputation as Microsoft and Vista because we are not “done right” and are not “hip” and a bit “free”. It’s time for IBM to really take a long hard look at the POWER platform and the OSes it runs and figure out how to tackle the next 20 years of growth. I can say PHP, C, MySQL, Python, AJAX, JAVA and other fancy words but how to get get them inside the i before it to late?
