Re: Interactive tax on processor. Why not disk too?

Rob, I thought the mantra was "disk is cheap".  IBM disk has never been as
cheap as PC's but that's been the "tax" you pay for the connivence,
quality, and service of being "i"ntegrated.  You have said before that you
don't like off-brands for iSeries disk because they have more issues than
true IBM drives.  How are you going to back up your Linux server?  TSM?
Oops, the data is back on the iSeries!  That's OK, though because disk is
cheap.  If you start adding in the costs of a tape drive and tapes for your
Linux system you may be eating up some of your savings.


Dave Parnin
--
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx





                                                                                
                                 
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Someone recently said that the interactive tax is not really a tax.  They
just didn't give the interactive users the deep discounting they gave
others on the newer processors.  Ok, suppose this is true, and the 90% of
you who think this is BS temporarily coat it with honey and go on to the
rest of this email.

Why don't they give people who are not using the i5 disk for interactive
applications a break also?

In our shop a measly 9% of disk is used for "traditional" i5/os
applications like our payroll, ERP, i5/os, etc.  By far a vast majority of
it is used for:
  - Tivoli Storage Manager to back up clients and servers
  -  IXS card storage spaces
  -  Domino

Now, since he can buy a new Linux server with 500GB for less than the cost
of 140GB of iSeries disk, the boss is thinking of forcing the archival of
all Domino mail messages over a specified duration to a Linux based Domino
server.  Since it is the cost of iSeries disk that is gagging us, you can
bet your sweet aunt that we are not going to run this Linux server as an
iSeries partition.

Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com

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