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The only other issue I can imagine is for the person/firm that wants to do and understand it all, including tape, back-ups, upgrades, and all of the other non-programming stuff. For many of us here that seems irrelevant but following Joe's problems of software licensing, I can easily see why just having a space on some one else's hardware is of little real worth.

Larry Bolhuis wrote:
Booth,

I believe you are on track. The 'Huggable Luggable' was great for demo's and shows and such but that's a small market. With all the bandwidth available today that market is satisfied by remote access. For the developers there is some potential gain in this but a small market once more. This market too will largely be swallowed up with V6R1 as it can host virtual i5/OS partitions. So each developer who wants one can have a partition of their own for 1/10th of a processor and a couple GB of memory and some disk space. No way that's gonna be more expensive than an entire system unit plus dasd plus tape and it's own copy of i5/OS with maintenance and SWMA. The promised Blade implementation may also address this space as well.

Would IBM like to be able to sell you this desktop developer system? I'm positive they would! Is there a business case for building it? I don't think so.

- Larry

Booth Martin wrote:
I am still not sure I understand the business case for a desktop unit. Portability, for marketing I suppose? But after that very small need, then what? Besides, if the goal is portability then why not a laptop?

If the battle is for price alone, then other solutions seem quicker/easier/more responsive?




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