Re: IBM's new pUnix announcement

Yep, the AS/400 gets hosed again...

And the eserver insert/pullout in Computerworld list them in this order:

IBM eserver xSeries
IBM eserver iSeries
IBM eserver pSeries
IBM eserver zSeries

I read this as low end to high end. I could be reading more into this than I
should, but it TICKS me off that the RS/6000 is listed as higher end than the
AS/400... Especially since it is having to BORROW technology from the AS/400 !!!

Chuck

Leif Svalgaard wrote:

> The following is from a traderag:
>
> For example, we didn't rebrand existing RS/6000 products," said IBM spokesman
> Jim Larkin.
> "If you want to buy the RS/6000 S80, you still can."
>
> But, Larkin admitted, the transition is awkward for some customers.
>
> "It's been kind of confusing to people," he said.
>
> Yet while the new products may be considered upgrades to existing servers,
> they are nonetheless new systems, Larkin said.
>
> Today's eServer p680 announcement is an example, he said. "This is not a
> rebranded S80, this is a different box," Larkin said. "It uses the same
> amount of processors, but we added silicon-on-insulator copper chips
> (previously only available on the AS/400e), increased the memory and brought
> over some other features."
>
> ---------
>
> note the "brought over".  From where? from the AS/400 of course.
>
> Leif Svalgaard
>
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