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On 10/11/06, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/11/06, Tom Jedrzejewicz <tomjedrz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> Steve ..
>
> First .. this statement -- "use the i5 CPW for real work." -- is
nonsense.
> Telephony is by far the most important service that IS provides, and has
by
> far the most demanding uptime requirements.  If email is down for a day,
I
> get yelled at.  If the telephones are down for a day I get fired.

how many sites run email on the system i?


My point was to illustrate the relative organizational priority of the
services provided.

Let me restate ...

If ERP is down for a day, my boss scolds me and there is some overtime
worked.
If file/print is down for a day, my boss's boss scolds me, and there is some
overtime worked.
If email is down for a day, my boss and his boss scream at me, and there is
some overtime worked.
If telephones are down for a day, we lose sales and I get fired.

your right Tom. Too bad IBM pricing of the i5 prevents us from getting
to the point where we can run everything on one server tower.  Here is
a double quad core p5 priced at $23K
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/entry/550q/91331eaa.html

That system would provide something like 20,000 CPW. Plenty for
running mail, telephony, web, green screen in a mix of i5/OS, AIX and
Linux partitions.


Steve, you over-simplify the argument to the point of being ridiculous,
which is why it gets no traction.

I propose a corollary to Godwin's Law (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law), which I dub "The Richter Rule"
-- as a midrange list discussion goes on, the probability of a comparison
between i5 and p5 pricing approaches 1.


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