RE: 520 model debate

What additional software comes with that package?  Sametime?  TSM?  BRMS? 
SQL?  etc...?  What about educational vouchers?  Would these a value add 
for your company?

For instance we use TSM to backup all of our servers and our client PC's. 
Use of that, and the educational vouchers for TSM education may be a big 
benefit.  Then again, that may significantly impact your i5 disk usage. It 
sure has ours.  We used a voucher to have our BP send someone on site for 
setup.  I might recommend setting up TSM in a Linux partition.  IBM's 
stopped upgrading TSM for i5/OS.  Used another voucher for Linux setup. If 
you've priced IBM education, and consulting in general lately, this stuff 
adds up quick.

We got BRMS but we don't use it.  Although Debbie Saugen's presentations 
at COMMON on BRMS sure make it sound appealing.

Rob Berendt