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RE: Scalability

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jones, John (US) wrote:

To see how valid these claims about how much more expensive iSeries pros
are than Unix pros, I ran the following.  The numbers are approximate
for a large metropolitan area but should be fairly close based on what
I've observed. Please feel free to adjust and comment.

Interesting numbers, but they all assume more unix pros are needed than iSeries pros. Why would you make such an assumption? All the numbers in the world showing how much more expensive unix guys are over iSeries guys are pointless if your initial assumption is wrong. Indeed, in my shop and my customers' iSeries pros outnumber unix 2 to 1, yet in my shop unix machines outnumber iSeries 4 to 1. My customers all have the same number of unix machines as iSeries.

James Rich

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