Re:Any downsides? (Score 2, Informative)

Your co-worker is probably talking with younger folks with little or no exposure to the latest versions of the iSeries environment. She probably doesn't know that the administrator can manage the entire system through a graphical interface known as iSeries Navigator. When I mean the entire system, I am also referring to the hardware. In real time, the admin can allocate system resources to the various partitions, etc. The iSeries comes with Apache and Tomcat and is a fully robust web server. It is no longer necessary to use green screen terminals to use the applications, because of iSeries Access for the Web. Instead of a green screen, the users log on through a browser, and have full use the green screen application. With complete honesty, I can report that a friend of mine with zero knowledge of web servers, etc. sat down with the manual and had the server and iSeries Access for the Web up and running in less than 2 hours. If you contact me at [e-mail] I can put you in touch with the right people at IBM. One friend there does nothing but assist companies in moving from Oracle to the iSeries.