Re: Raid problems

>IBM just have to keep the price point just below the threshold of pain.

That's what my old economics professor used to say :-))

Seriously though, if the price were 140K, I'd just go back to my hundred
monkeys with their hundred typewriters (IBM selectrics)

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: Raid problems


> From: Paul Nelson <p_nelson-br@pop.inil.com>
> > Sure, you can buy the cheaper equipment, but then you're on your own.
>
> Now, Paul, would you still say that if IBM's disk drives were not $1,400
> a piece but $140,000 a piece? I don't think so. Your 'sole source'
> arguments are not valid per se, but only as long as the drive's cost
> is a small fraction of the system cost. As that fraction increases,
> the 'sole source' argument becomes increasingly invalid. IBM just
> have to keep the price point just below the threshold of pain.
>
>
>
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