RE: NT vs AS/400

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jt,

At the risk of quoting Mr. Z out of context, I'm going to post the following
excerpt which caught my eye:

"You need to be able to support the varieties of workload that make up
e-business, data and transaction servers, Web and application servers, and
appliance or edge servers, and you need to be able to deliver those
workloads in a way that's appropriate for buyers -- large enterprise buyers,
mid-market buyers, the kind of Web operators who are building out this
infrastructure in many cases."

The question that immediately springs to my mind is what do they consider a
mid-market buyer? I remember reading at some point in the past that IBM
carved up their server market as follows:

Enterprise - $1M +  (Machine size)
Mid-market - $100K - $1M
Small mkt  - up to $100K

Does anyone have anything official that defines those terms? I think it's
important to determine what IBM considers the small market, and what they
have planned for them. After all, would it not be fair to say that it
comprises a fair percentage of overall business for the BP's on this list?
That figure ($100K or less) makes up a big slice of the 170 model line.


John Taylor
Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of jt


> FWIW.  Here is an interview with Mr. Zeitler:
> http://www.sellingeserver.com/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=view
> article&Co
> ntentID=355
>

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