Presenter: Jon Paris

Topic: Fast, Free Aplications for Your IBM i

Are you tired of constantly exporting and importing data for "foreign" applications running on Windows or Unix/Linux servers? Do you wish there was an easy way to keep more applications on IBM i?
This session shows you two approaches that will help you to ensure that modern applications can be deployed on IBM i easily and without breaking the budget.

   1. Exploit the huge world of open source (i.e., free or nearly free) applications and tools that you can easily implement on your IBM i system. And what's more, you can easily integrate these applications into your DB2/RPG universe.
   2. Create powerful browser-based database applications in minutes using readily available application frameworks - writing almost no code yourself. And all the data can be stored in DB2 so you can easily integrate these applications into your existing inventory.

Can it really be that cheap and easy to do? Yes, thanks to the ability to run PHP and MySQL on IBM i. In this session, Jon will discuss a number of open source applications and will also demonstrate several application frameworks to show just how quickly and easily new web-based applications can be deployed.

Keep your IBM i alive and vibrant and be a hero to your end users by responding quickly to requests for new web based applications.

You do not need to be a PHP programmer to do this. Come find out how.