The importance of PHP long-term support for IBM i users By Erwin Earley On February 1, 2019 The importance of understanding long-term support (LTS) for PHP and the implications and benefits of upgrading Zend Server (and therefore PHP) cannot be overstated! Let’s first talk about LTS It’s important to understand that there are two ways of getting updates for PHP, one being the community and the other being Rogue Wave Software Zend. […]
What is IBM PASE and how does it relate to open source solutions? By Erwin Earley On January 16, 2019 This post offers an understanding of the IBM PASE architecture that facilitates both the execution of open source solutions and the leveraging of the ILE by those solutions.
How do we attract new IT talent to IBM i? By Erwin Earley On January 8, 2019 What would it take to attract and keep IT professionals to the IBM i platform?
What is modernization? By Erwin Earley On July 12, 2018 Enterprises are seeing benefits by modernizing with PHP on the IBM i platform. Learn how PHP helps realize the goals of modernization.
30 Years of IBM i(-ers)… Happy anniversary By Kara Howson On June 20, 2018 We asked our experts to reflect on their history with IBM i and where the platform will go in the future.
Introduction to microservices for IBM i By Erwin Earley On March 7, 2018 While there is no standard or formal definition of the term “microservice,” one can essentially view microservices as a method of developing software systems as a suite of independently deployable, small, modular services that work together. Each service performs a specific process and communicates via a well-defined, typically lightweight mechanism to satisfy a particular business […]
Welcome to the future on IBM i By Zeev Suraski On June 6, 2017 OK, this is a bit of a far-reaching title, but I think in this case, it’s fully warranted. We’ve recently released Zend Server 9.1, which brings the wonders of PHP 7 (and more specifically, 7.1) to the IBM i platform. This is huge news for the IBM i crowd, which is typically very interested in performance, […]
10 years of PHP on IBM i – Attend the celebration at ZendCon 2016 By Amy Anderson On September 30, 2016 2016 is a special year for ZendCon. It’s the first where we’ll dedicate a focused track to the myriad of open source technologies, use, and support. And in similar vein, it marks 10 years of PHP on IBM i. In my earlier blog post, “Open source on IBM i: Has hell frozen over?” I talked about the […]
Back to basics with IBM i and PHP By Mike Pavlak On August 16, 2016 A recap of two recent PHP on IBM i webinars, helping you get started and tune performance.
Open source on IBM i: Has hell frozen over? By Amy Anderson On June 9, 2016 In the not-so-distant past, the idea of running open source software (OSS) on the famously proprietary AS/400 was an anathema: not only was the idea technically unfeasible, it was also improbable from a business perspective. Few people would have been able to list three reasons why a customer would ever want such a thing. But […]
