“When debugging, it is our view that our programmers’ time should be spent understanding the code, not the debugger. When we get into trouble with an algorithm, being able to get it into TotalView, find and solve the problem, and restore the code to our production environment in a timely …

“Pound for pound we’re doing something very cost effective. I’d encourage everyone to consider looking at IBM i with Zend Server; you just can’t beat it. There’s complexity involved with keeping everything up and running in an Intel/Wintel environment, yet for us it’s been simple.”