RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

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From: Ingvaldson, Scott [mailto:SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 9:44 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

>The i5/Series is really the ultimate consolidation platform; almost
>nothing is incompatible with it, almost anything will run on it in some
>shape or form.  What other box can say that?

2 or 3 yrs ago the p5 and i5 were the same price. Since that time, IBM has cut 
the price of the p5 to the point where today, a p5 is 1/3 the price of the i5.  
What is the business case for running an AIX workload on an i5 that costs $25K 
when the same workload can run on a p5 for $7K?  

I was told recently that MySQL AIX binaries can run asis in PASE. Same with PHP 
even before the official Zend implementation. That is great technology. What is 
the advantage to using PASE instead of running the real thing, PHP on the p5?

-Steve