The key issue being addressed here is a way to license i5/OS that makes
the System i more competitive when people are running applications like
Domino, WAS, WPS, Apache, PHP, SAP application serving, etc. Anyone
running partitions with only those types of applications had a very hard
time justifying the cost differential. It's a lot better now.
Michael Crump
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[
mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:40 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on
Apr. 10.
New models!?
i5/os without the database? Who would run that? Domino? SAP?
Wasn't the rumor mill that IBM will unbundle the database in an effort
to
push everyone to some PASE based database in an effort to migrate those
off of i5/os and on to Linux. Doesn't SAP already use a pase enabled
database? So now does DB2 fall into the realm of the interactive tax?
I can understand Domino on the i5. Separate subsystems for each domino
partition. Ability to bounce one while the others hum along. Ability
to
individually tune each domino server separately, etc.
However, what does pase, without DB2, bring to an application that
running
it under Linux or aix wouldn't?
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
