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Is the pricing value of the System i in the hardware, or in the consistency of the platform software over decades?

Steve Richter wrote:
On 12/8/06, Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I expect that 4x faster is just a number you made up. And it was not
considering apples to apples.

 this quad core p5 has 4x the CPW of a single core i5:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/entry/550/91331efa.html

here is an ITJungle chart showing the i5 to be 2x the price:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh110606-story02-fig02.html

you dont have to answer of course, but I would like to know what IBM
is thinking in terms of pricing of the system i5.  The user and vendor
community could build a new GUI that works with green screen apps, but
such a thing would likely go nowhere if the base i5 remains geared
down and over priced.

-Steve


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