Absolutely dont knock the as/400! I have been lucky enough to work in two different jobs where as/400's were used. the first, the as/400 was from the 70's and was still running the entire business. It wasn't the best situation, but it gives you an idea of how stable these things are.
Where I work now, we have four main as/400's, several test ones and at least one in all of our 209 branches. The things you can do with these machines are absolutely amazing. (speaking strictly from a database server perspective, because thats about all I have messed with) With the correct logicals (similar to indexes, but also similar to views) you can query over billions (literally) of records in milliseconds. They are so specialized to what they do that they are screaming fast. I would prefer a correctly set up as/400 over any oracle database any day. They are a bit on the expensive side, and you generally see them in accounting type roles, but man, they are nothing short of amazing. On 4/20/06, Matt Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool to see someone defending the AS/400! My brother was one of the > lead developers on the OS for many years so I KNOW it's a solid > machine. ;-) > > Matt > > On 4/20/06, Jared Rypka-Hauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WOW... ok, apparently the AS/400 is still a product line at IBM... in 2000 > > it was renamed to the iSeries line of servers and the line now includes the > > i5 systems as well. > > > > What's interesting about it is that every piece of software written for the > > AS/400 will run on any piece of AS/400 hardware ever produced or ever to be > > produced. Apparently the hardware was set up so that programmers can't get > > access to the native instructions of the hardware platforms under OS/400, so > > the software is written to the virtual instruction set they DO have access > > to, which is then compiled into native code for the actual harware platform. > > > > Fascinating stuff. > > > > Laterz, > > J > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > > > > Jared C. Rypka-Hauer > > > > Continuum Media Group LLC > > > > http://www.web-relevant.com > > > > Member, Team Macromedia - ColdFusion > > > > > > > > > > "That which does not kill me makes me stranger." - Yonah Schmeidler > > > -- > Matt Woodward > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.mattwoodward.com > > > > -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- [email protected] > -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/ > > > -- Ryan Guill A Deep Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ryanguill.com (270) 217.2399 got google talk? Chat me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Coldfusion Open Application Library - COAL - http://coal.ryanguill.com Use CF and SQL? Try qBrowser - http://www.ryanguill.com/docs/ www.ryanguill.com/ The Roman Empire: www.ryanguill.com/blog/ -- Reactor for ColdFusion Mailing List -- [email protected] -- Archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/reactor%40doughughes.net/
