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[Brian Williams]

I don't know if you've ever worked with an AS/400 (I did in some college
classes back in 98 - 00 with COBOL and RPG) it's very powerful and in use by
a LOT of government/industrial companies -- as the article states. The
Series i replaces the AS/400 (side-note:Zend has offered Series i downloads
for a while now, at least for its IDE) and at the risk of sounding like a
little fanboy... this is fantastic news for PHP and PHP programmers over
all.

People with COBOL/RPG and PHP experience will be able to pull in a
*nice*paycheck converting programs or building web-based front-ends to
interface
with those programs.

better start exercising program logic muscles again...



On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:23 PM, David Krings <ramons at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Came across this article in InformationWeek. It is about IBM and Zend
> porting PHP to IBM's System i hardware aimed at small business and Fortune
> 500 (which means mom & pop shops and huge corporations?? Doesn't make sense
> to me, but maybe I misunderstand). Seems as if PHP will give Java some
> competition. Interesting read...and apologies if this is old news to you.
>
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/soa/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213201961&cid=nl_IWK_daily_H
>
>
> David
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