Force fed LPAR

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IBM is really pushing LPAR.  Probably for a number of reasons.
A)  It sells disk and more cards.
B)  It increases complexity of your operation, thus perhaps selling
services.
C)  It drastically increases the amount of your downtime.  Perhaps selling
High Availability solutions, which may help sell services.  For instance,
if I run 4 partitions on V5R2 and I want to go to the next release, won't
I have to do 4 upgrades?  IBM charges $3,500 a upgrade therefore wouldn't
they get 4 times what they would have gotten out of a single partition
machine?  Granted, we do our own upgrades, but I don't think you can
upgrade all partitions at once.

We've recently consolidated multiple machines onto one.  IBM's insistence
that we use LPAR to 'reduce cost' of some of their products.  Their
insistence that we run LPAR if we want to currently run the latest and
greatest Domino, Sametime and Quickplace on one iSeries.  And other
attempts to ram LPAR down our throats is upsetting.

Rob Berendt
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