RE: More COMMON

 <snip>No mention
of price cuts or an end to the practice of gearing down the system.
</snip>

You keep on mentioning this...again I have to ask...where's the numbers?
I have yet to see any proof (definitive or circumstantial to support the
claim).  Anyone else notice no type of documentation or supporting
information that IBM is "gearing down" anything??

<snip>
What
is needed is market priced CPU that can meet the need of a companies
growing needs.
</snip>
Since this is a "Need" of a company experiencing growth I can assume
(using the same methods you use for the gearing down statement...) that
your company will never outgrow the i5 or you would be happily on
another platform & spouting garbage about that platform elsewhere...



Thanks,
Tommy Holden


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 3:35 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: More COMMON

On 9/12/06, Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

COMMON starts next Sunday - and, I guess some of the rumors are

starting to

spread.

yeah, it is a bit discouraging.

I have three suggestions:
1) Read here for some ideas:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh091106-story01.html (~some~ of it is

true)

I always read what ITJungle has to say. It all seems to be marketing
which I think is something that does not need correcting. No mention
of price cuts or an end to the practice of gearing down the system.
With the i5 priced at 4x that of the p5 why would a company choose to
do its database or web site or web service serving from the i5?  i5/OS
is a good OS. But its value add is subtle in the server world. You
dont need output queues or work managment or job queues or even
integrated security when serving web pages or ODBC result sets. What
is needed is market priced CPU that can meet the need of a companies
growing needs.

-Steve