Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

From: "Chris Rehm" <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
>
> My point is that this is not a CFINT issue, it is a pricing issue. If IBM
> needs to receive a certain amount of revenue to justify marketing the
> iSeries, it doesn't matter if they use a CPW interactive governor or if
> they manufacture dual CPU systems with variant degrees of power for 5250
> and non 5250 data streams.

Chris,

The high end 270 has a cpw of 1000 and a base price of 30k. Add on the
extras needed to support 15 active telneting users and the price is $50k.
To run a real c++ telnet accessed application that is code bloat to some,
well abstracted functionality to others will need every bit of the 1000 CPW
to service its 15 users.

Current ibm pricing for 1000 cpw of interactive processing is what $200k ?
That is way overpriced for the 15 user system that I am describing.  The
casualty is the c++ application, the C++ way of coding an application.

And the foolish part of this is that if the high ungoverned, reasonably
priced cpw is sold by IBM for interactive jobs, then pgms will be written to
use it ( waste it some will say ), the 200K 820 will support just as many
users as it supports now and IBM will make just as much money as before.
( more actually since they will sell more systems )

-Steve Richter