Symetry has announced its "i in the Sky" cloud hosting program for SAP running on IBM i in a cloud based environment. While this appears on the surface to be a good thing for many SAP on i customers by eliminating the cost of running your own hardware and the people to support it.
I am quite sure that Symetry has excellent people and support staff and can offer a great service to its customers. I also think that this instead of prolonging the life of IBM i will hasten its demise. If a significant number of customers move to this cloud environment, they will significantly reduce the software maintenance fees paid to IBM that keeps IBM i alive.
If I am right, then what? You are stuck on a dated system running in a cloud where you are the prisoner. SAP offers cloud based hosting on Linux and Windows. Why not go with a solution that offers you longevity and eliminates the risk of being a captive of a single vendor on a proprietary system. You can move a Linux based system to anyone of well over 100 cloud hosting company, with a dozen of the largest providers in the business offering services.
Buyer beware!
This blog is about the IBM's IBM i operating system and the need to modernize. The articles in this blog are my opinion based on my experience.
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