Re: Wanna get REALLY p'ed off ?

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

You can go from a $8000 AS/iSeries to a clustered 24way with 13+TB with one
OS.  What other platform can you do that with?  And unless you are going to
do the computing needs of (say) Germany,  why would you need more.

I say it is misleading at best.   A 24way would be "higher end business"
a zseries would be "Highest end business"

John Carr


Did anyone besides me watch the Real Player movie about the discussion?

The main point they made was that to go from a lower end business (AS/400)
to a higher end business (IBM Mainframe) you have to change operating
systems.
(0S400 to OS360 ???).  In and of itself this is fairly true.

I would not agree with the fact that you can't do anything with an AS/400.
Perhaps in the past that may have been true, but now the AS/400 has pretty
much become a full network server.

So, I would agree with half of what the article said.

Regards,

Jim Langston

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