People Over Process: RedMonk Radio Episode 33 – Zend Update with Andi Gutmans
The podcast is here, where we talk about Zend and its partnerships with IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.
But for a slightly different perpective below is some information from Cheap Technology Officer Nigel Fortlage of GHY, who uses PHP on Linux on i, rather than directly on i5/OS through Zend.
“Today GHY uses PHP extensively, but on our Linux LPARS, not native i5 OS. It is our defacto way to web enable information from DB2 or other databases to the web. Having it on the System i isn’t a direct benefit to me unless I want to move off Linux. (not likely but an option)
It could also reduce the amount of LAN or VLAN traffic if that was an issue….which it isn’t (we use all VLAN traffic for this web enablement)
Because of it’s wide acceptance in the open source world, it opens up the iSeries to more people being able to develop on it and for it. This is both supportive and cooperative to the messages that IBM have been saving about the iSeries (Sorry System i). It is true that most of the new work loads and applications that have come to the System I are not native i5 OS, but name me another system which asks the question which type of operating system do you want to run today and supports that environments software stack along with it. That means the System I has a software inventory of All native i5 OS apps, All AIX apps, All Linux Apps, and All Windows Apps. Not bad for a box that gets forgotten….it gets forgotten by the way
because it just runs and runs, and runs…..oh did I say it just keeps
running yet 🙂
Will we use PHP on System i, maybe. We are looking at it and changing one of our internal apps to run natively on PHP on System i to see how it does. I don’t honestly expect any better, but it extends the possibilities once again, so now I can decide do I run it on Linux or i5 OS, that’s customer choice which is always a good thing!”
Nigel Fortlage
Vice President Information Technology
GHY International
disclaimers: IBM is a client. Zend is a client. Nigel is a key contact of mine, but doesn’t pay me money.
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