Re: Cheaper Servers?

["Robin Sapiro \(Rogers\)" <robin.sapiro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

How about this as a survey subject.

Would you buy a laptop iSeries.
In what price range.
What would you do with it

Maybe IBM would like some overwhelming feedback on this subject (OK so I am
dreaming - but still an interesting survey question)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Bull" <Jeff.Bull@ITM-group.co.uk>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: Cheaper Servers?


> ... I never mentioned Intel processors, I used the term 'laptop', perhaps
I
> could have used the term 'portable'.
>
> At a previous employer the sales/marketing team 'lugged' a model 150
around
> the world (!!!) to demonstrate the business applications they had for
sale.
> The prospects liked to see applications running native, not over a comms
> link.  The poor little 150 was bashed to bits many times by the airline
> baggage handlers, even though it was reasonably protected in a custom made
> case.
>
> A portable AS/400 is what is needed.  The electronic guts of a 150/170
style
> system could surely be repackaged, perhaps further miniaturised, and made
> truly portable, e.g. carried as airline hand-baggage.  I bet the component
> technology already exists, the casing and marketing ... well IBM ?
>
> Jeff Bull
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Lang [mailto:aalang@rutgersinsurance.com]
> Sent: 09 April 2002 16:25
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Cheaper Servers?
>
>
> Nope.  Doubt it would work.  Part of AS/400 (and Mac for that point too)
> robustness is the fact of a limited set of hardware to support.
>
> If you have IBM developing OS/400 for Intel AND the millions of hardware
> possible, it will tank.
>
> Adam Lang
> Systems Engineer
> Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:20 AM
> Subject: RE: Cheaper Servers?
>
>
> > Buck,
> >
> > I would differentiate between an entry level server and a personal
> > version of OS/400.  One of the reasons that IBM gives for not pushing
> > iSeries solutions in their consulting business is that they have
> > difficulty recruiting recent college graduates with OS/400 experience.
> > One of the reasons many managers would not consider an iSeries is that
> > they've never used one.  If a very-low-cost personal version of the
> > system was available for an Intel platform, perhaps with a client limit
> > of one, then college students could use the system and gain the
> > familiarity that none of them have.
> >
> > I can think of no other way to make OS/400 ubiquitous, given the
> > circumstances of the marketplace.
> >
> > Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
> >
> > > John Carr wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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 $)  ??
> > >
> > > I briefly spoke with Dr Soltis at the recent Northeast IBM Conference.
> > I
> > > asked him to put OS/400 on a laptop to distribute to universities.  He
> > > told
> > > me that he floated the idea and nobody was interested, including
> > COMMON.
> > > Apparently, if IBM can't find demand, they're disinclined to fire up a
> > > production line to create dumpster-filler.
> > >
> > > This may be an opportunity for us to tell Rochester that we're
> > interested
> > > in
> > > a low-cost OS/400.
> > >   --buck
> >
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