RE: Scalability

["Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

May I ask a tangential question here?  I have long wondered about something
pertaining to this discussion of unix & iSeries.  Do unix shops deploy
Windows PCs or do they deploy Linux or some variant?   Is the iSeries pretty
well committed to needing Windows workstations?  When one is discussing
scalability doesn't unix's ability to fill the need from keyboard to server
give unix the edge?  In general what is the discussion one would make about
unix and the user workstations?
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 02/08/05 12:08:49
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: 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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