RE: What About Price vs. Performance?

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When you look at price for performance on an AS/400 you have to factor in
Interactive Feature.  IBM still charges a small fortune for that little bit
of technical misdirection that really translates into user licensing for
5250.  If you're running web apps you shouldn't need as much Interactive
Feature, which can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on larger
systems.  I doubt you can sell it back once you've bought it though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nathanma@haaga.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:13 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: What About Price vs. Performance?


"Get thee to the Web".  We've been hearing that from IBM.  But I have
concerns about iSeries price vs. performance for Web applications.

I've been reviewing published performance data recently on a couple of Web
applications.  Both applications were hosted on Intel servers.  Microsoft
Windows technologies were used to develop and host the applications.

I've also been developing OS/400 based web applications lately.  The
problem, is that these Windows based Web applications perform better than
mine, and on systems that cost 1/6 that of mine.  The complexity of the
applications, and the size of the HTML responses, are comparable to mine,
but the hardware/OS price vs. performance is better by a factor of 7 to 8.

So, how can I expect the iSeries to compete as a Web application server?

Thanks,

Nathan.


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