Re: POWER6 Pricing for Small Businesses vs. System x / SBS Pricing -- MIDRANGE-L

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"The day the Rational products run on Linux, I'm probably off of Windows for good."

Amen! If there is anything I'd love to see more in the existing Rational Suite, it is support for Linux.

Pete Helgren

Joe Pluta wrote:

Lukas Beeler wrote:

Seems inconsistant. On one hand, you're a big fan of selling high
quality, professional hardware (like the POWER platform), but on the
other hand you're selling normal PCs as servers - the latter is just
unprofessional.

Commodity servers are commodity servers. I don't use the IFS for file serving, I use inexpensive commodity hardware with good backups. Same with email and DNS. Nothing unprofessional about the right tool for the job.

You say that Exchange evens things out, I say that that since it's worthless to me it doesn't even anything out.

It's really a point of view issue, Lukas. The more you like Microsoft products, the more Microsoft makes sense. Me, I'm almost entirely removed from Microsoft now and I don't miss it. The day the Rational products run on Linux, I'm probably off of Windows for good. An IBM i solution with Linux workstations is a really attractive option, in my opinion.

Joe

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