Re: One Box vs Two

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 09:47 AM 06/16/2000 -0500, you wrote:

You can use LPAR to split up one n-way bow into multiple logical 
partitions, and assign interactive processing across the processors.  You 
cannot LPAR a model 170, 270 or 530, even though they be n-way.

If you would like my LPAR presentation and article (from AS/400 Expert's 
Journal), please send private mail to my normal e-mail address.

Al
>We have a model 530 box as well as a model 510 box at our company.
>We will be moving to a model 700 series or model 800 series box sometime
>this year.
>For development work by our programmers, would you recommend having 1 box
>and use partitioning or else
>having 2 boxes using 1 for development work?
>I tend to have the opinion that we only need 1 box for our company.
>There is a big push in splitting our development process away from our
>production environment.
>I would like your feedback on this.
>We are a manufacturing company with about 10 programmers on our AS/400.
>
>Also, what type boxes or systems would you recommend for e-commerce type
>applications?
>
>Maybe a Model 270 system?
>
>Thanks for your feedback.
>
>
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