Bob Cancilla: Drop That IBM i and Move to the Cloud

Bob Cancilla, a familiar face in the IBM i world, has an interesting column (provocative for IBM i personnel) on his Web site, encouraging readers to drop their IBM i boxes and move to a cloud-based solution. Here’s one of his relevant points.

The total cost of cloud based operations is a fraction of what you will pay in terms of hardware, software, and people to maintain and support your own Power Systems IBM i based environment.

There was a linkedin topic that reports that going rate for an IBM i system administrator is $90k per year plus in most parts of the United States. So figure about $120k total cost. That is a lot of money for any company, but especially smaller companies with small IBM i based machines! This is a totally unnecessary expense in a cloud based environment.

He makes an interesting argument that the cloud makes IBM i administrators and even RPG programmers obsolete. What do you think? If he right? Anyone? Angus??? Feel free to post comments here.

So is it game over now that the cloud’s in town? I’ll offer a guest blog post on joehertvik.com to anyone who wants to debate Mr. Cancilla.

Read Bob’s column here

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