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>If youre developing-only, why have an iSeries? >Get on one of the NetBoxes. That is certainly >affordable with the added bonus of not having >to deal with backups, PTFs, etc. Booth, I'll jump in here with one possible answer. I was seriously looking at a 270 to do the new stuff that IBM have introduced: HTML server, Servlet engine (Tomcat/WebSphere), LPAR. Almost all of these require dedicated access to the machine (imagine trying to take a production machine down to tinker with multi-homing, or to put on a PTF because the Integrated xSeries card went casters-up!) In addition, any sort of testing for multiple security schemes is just about impossible without *SECOFR access to the box. iSeries Navigator is tough to use to it's fullest potential, and performance management (profiling a program, etc.) is nearly impossible without dedicated access. I also like to tinker with MI... Even here at work, it's not like I can tell the other 40+ folks that I want the machine down for a bit so I can tinker some new thing or another. It's another weekend for me; but I have to schedule around our REAL system admin's chores like PTFs and various backups. Sigh. A dedicated box would be so nice, but it isn't going to happen for me. --buck
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