State of IBMi in US vs EA
I was on a call with a customer yesterday who is also a consultant and he mentioned that he was quite surprised by the standing the IBM i has in Europe. Surprised, that is, that it is doing much better than IBM i in US. He based this on comments that they have some lively ERP software packages actively being pursued. I didn’t get a chance to digress further to learn of the packages unfortunately, so make sure to research before putting any stock into that comment.
I was also on a Skype with Niels Liisberg the other day (IceBreak RPG framework developer in Denmark) and he mentioned some excellent embracing of techonology they are seeing as of late.
All this on the heels of me learning that a number of US AS400 shops deciding to migrate off the platform in 2009/2010. Given that Europe always seems to be a few steps ahead of the US on some fronts, I am wondering if they have already been down the path of trying to leave the platform and then realizing that leaving isn’t gaining anything? Or maybe they aren’t needing to learn it the hard way like we do in the US? :-)
Anybody from “across the pond” want to confirm what you are seeing in Europe?
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Well, i live in Switzerland. We sold about 30 new 520’s in 2007. For that, we got an award from IBM telling us that we sold the most systems this year.
Given that a 520 is basically the IBM i equivalent of a two-socket Intel server, this should be telling.
I’m living in germany and working with ibm midrange machines > 20 years, since 14 years as independent consultant with as/400.
The german way off AS/400 goes from AS/400 to SAP on AS/400 to SAP on p to SAP on sun/hp or something else.
The german way on AS/400 is to stay at some release and stopping investments in informations technology.
Most of my customers (my job mainly is knowhow support in the area java, sql and bringing this to rpg) are related to and feel confident with as/400, but even in this shops the investments in other technologies ( wintel, linux on intel, oracle, mysql …) increases and the importance of as/400 decreases.
Dieter Bender
Lukas, that *is* quite the interesting award for that quantity!
Dieter, thanks for your opinion. Also, stay tuned for an article I wrote about AppServer4RPG – wanted to see if I could spark some interest around the tool.