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There was one once - P01 - whatever happened? It went nowhere. Who's to blame? Just wondering? At 03:40 PM 4/9/02 +0100, you wrote: >... imagine an average laptop computer ... how many times more powerful and >capacious than many of the AS/400 models of old. >... now imagine all those AS/400 / iSeries product salesmen in IBM, BPs, >trying to compete with the Unix and MS based salesmen; ok, which group can >actually demonstrate their products, and with more ease ... and in the >prospects own office? > >OS/400 on a laptop would be an incredible marketing tool, every iSeries >salesperson would want one, need one. It would put them on a level playing >field with those other application vendors. Even if IBM didn't directly >make a profit from a laptop >iSeries, the increase in sales of larger systems would surely and adequately >compensate. > >How many iSeries based home workers are there out in the world? IBM, give >us a CHEAP and practical laptop / single-user desktop version of OS/400 - if >there is no demand, create one. Televisions, microwave ovens, mobile >phones, home computers - all inventions that most people don't really need, >but they nearly all have them. > >This is another example of IBM falling out of touch with the needs and >desires of their customers. > >Jeff Bull > >-----Original Message----- >From: jpcarr@tredegar.com [mailto:jpcarr@tredegar.com] >Sent: 09 April 2002 03:06 >To: midrange-l@midrange.com >Subject: Cheaper Servers? > > > >This is a portion of Newswire and I apologize for presenting a snippet >here, >but I wanted to ask the group, > >Given that, (From Snippet below) > > "IBM's p670 offering is especially affordable because of the >efficiencies gained by sharing processor technology and the >Rochester manufacturing facility with the iSeries," > >If we share the same hardware, and IBM OWNS OS/400 and AIX >and they are putting relatively the same R&D money into both, > >Should the iSeries cost the same as a pSeries ( +/- a few $) ?? > >Also given; (from snippet below) > >"The p670 also targets the same types of consolidation >workloads as the iSeries, with the largest 16-way box able to >support 16 Unix or Linux logical partitions." > >Then if the pSeries costs lots less, wouldn't that give a considerable >marketing advantage to the pSeries? > >Maybe a town hall meeting question to who ever is going to COMMON. > >John Carr > >---------------------------------- > >IBM RENEWS ATTACK ON MIDRANGE MARKET >http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=14190 > ><SNIP> >The midrange space is a reliable, growing market, but IBM and its >competitors have a secondary reason for their renewed interest, says >Sageza Group senior analyst Charles King. "Enterprises have pretty >tight purse strings right now," he says. "[IBM's] Regatta and >[Sun's] Star Cat 15K are both very interesting, very capable high- >end machines, but I think vendors like IBM and Sun may have looked >around and thought, maybe we should come out with something cheaper, >something companies can get by with, that they can actually afford >at this point." > >IBM's p670 offering is especially affordable because of the >efficiencies gained by sharing processor technology and the >Rochester manufacturing facility with the iSeries, McGaughan says. >The p670 is priced about 36 percent less than comparable Sun Fire >models 4800 and 6800 and about 20 percent less than comparable HP >RP8400 models. The p670 also targets the same types of consolidation >workloads as the iSeries, with the largest 16-way box able to >support 16 Unix or Linux logical partitions. (That's compared to the >HP 8400 and Sun Fire 4800, which can each support just two >partitions, and the Sun Fire 6800, which can support four.) IBM >expects to have 64-bit Linux running in a pSeries partition in third >quarter. > ><SNIP> > >_______________________________________________ >This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list >To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, >visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l >or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com >Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives >at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > > >________________________________________________________________________ >This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The >service is powered by MessageLabs. 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