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US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities 806

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday June 18, 2009 @02:45PM from the out-of-the-rubble-and-into-the-future dept.

chrb writes "Two days ago Slashdot discussed broke counties grinding their tarmac roads into gravel. Now the Telegraph reveals plans to raze huge sections of at least 50 US cities to the ground. The resulting smaller cities will be more economical to run, and the recovered land will be returned to nature."

Comment iSeries Reliablility, Flexibility (Score 1) 125

by xchknfrmr on Tuesday January 03, 2006 @09:44AM (#14383850) Attached to: IBM iSeries or Windows server?

My employer is moving from one ERP system to another one on iSeries. If your Co. has expertise with iSeries' systems then stay with it. There are very few systems with the security and reliablity of an iSeries. OS/400 (and i5/OS) is object oriented by design and that contributes enormously to it's security. One idea is to keep the iSeries and use it as a DB2 server. That way you aren't locked into it if your company decides to move to another platform and are taking advantage of the iSeries' strengths. By the way, you can run X applications from i5/OS and OS/400 natively as well as running Linux, AIX, etc. in logical partitions.

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