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[Alan Seiden]

PHP has been officially supported on IBM i since 2006, when Zend/IBM 
began providing IBM i's users with a no-charge package consisting of 
Zend Core, Studio, support, and special extensions.

(IBM i is the newest name for a system formerly called AS/400, iSeries, 
i5, and System i.)

So what's the news about? Till now, Zend Core was only available as a 
download. Now, IBM is making a big statement by including Zend Core on 
IBM i's operating system CDs. Because many IBM i customers take their 
lead from IBM, customers will see this as a strong signal that it's OK 
to use PHP.

These days, I specialize in implementing PHP on IBM i. I've even done 
gigs to mentor teams in implementing Zend Framework on their "i", with 
its special version of db2 and all.

I agree with Brian that there's opportunity for PHP developers 
interested in converting or front-ending text-based "i" applications.

Alan
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Alan Seiden
Senior Developer/Technical Lead
Zend Framework Certified Engineer
PHP i5 Solutions, Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
alan at alanseiden.com <mailto:alan at alanseiden.com> | 201-327-8746 x144
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> Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 22:40:33 -0500
> From: Brian Williams <brianw1975 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Link to PHP article in InformationWeek
> To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
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> 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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