Yeah, weird idea, right?
I got an email this morning from Kisco Information Sysgtems (that’s how they spelled “systems” in the email) who has a product that runs on your System i / iSeries / AS/400 (whatever you’d like to call it) which allows your system to have twitter-like functionality.
They admit its an odd combination but go on to give you a few examples of how you could use it. Things like system, message or file monitoring, personal tweets back to Twitter or as an internal marketing tool. Not a bad idea. I think I’d still prefer the Domino version but I can see how this might be handy.
Prices range from $295 to $495 based on how many partitions it’ll run on. The Domino counterpart is free via OpenNTF.org.
Also if you’d like to follow all my random tweets you can do so here. Keyword: random.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:27 am
One problem I see with this is that Twitter is not that reliable at the moment. If your gonna route messages to system admins via Twitter, and then you find that Twitter is down for an hour or so like it was last night, do you really wanna find out that your admin guys could not respond to a message in your overnight batch processing or backups cos Twitter was kaput again! Think SMS is much more reliable