Elimination of the interactive penalty?

Anybody seen this or care to comment on what it really means?



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Rochester will announce the four newest members of the iSeries line -
including the long-awaited Regatta hardware on the low end - and all
customers are in for big changes.

On January 20, IBM will unveil the details of the biggest iSeries hardware
announcement of the year, the new iSeries 800, i810, i825, and i870
servers, to its customers. On January 7, Big Blue made the announcement to
IBM'ers and business partners at eServer University, says internal IBM
documentation obtained by the Insider.

Interactive fees eliminated: IBM will also announce that maximum 5250
Interactive CPW will come at no charge in most of the new configurations.
This action reflects IBM's success with GreenStreak, which pushed hardware
sales without the burden of the interactive tax (IW 11/25/02).

"This confirms that GreenStreak was just an early pricing test to see if
this restructuring would fly," says an Insider source close to IBM.

However, IBM has discarded the name "5250 Interactive," which carried a
negative connotation in recent years, and will call the capability "5250
On-Line Transaction Processing" (OLTP). IBM defines 5250 OLTP as "any task
that uses a 5250 Data Stream."

"This is an attempt to take the focus off the fact that IBM charged for
5250 Interactive for so long," says an Insider source.

Good news: If your existing box has 5250 Interactive CPW, it can only
upgrade into a server with the Enterprise Package that includes maximum
5250 OLTP CPW.

More insight: Insider Weekly subscribers are already reading the important
details surrounding this significant announcement, including: --Breaking
down the new iSeries models...

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... With four new boxes rolling in, shops of all sizes can now appreciate
the Power processor technology introduced with the i890.

-- A new way to purchase iSeries: Options Packages-customers are now
required to select an Options package with their new server. Offered in
Value, Standard, and Enterprise packages, iSeries customers have a new way
of looking at hardware capabilities.

-- Rochester introduces temporary On-Demand computing. Rochester is
adopting a two-tier approach to on-demand computing that allows for
temporary capacity.

-- Insider Updates: Buell Duncan is leaving the iSeries to become GM of the
Software Group developer relations, as IBM attempts to shake up its
beleaguered iSeries division. Al Zollar, formerly the GM of Lotus, will
replace him.

You can find out all the details of this important announcement in the
January 13 issue of Insider Weekly. Upcoming issues will take an in-depth
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