Re: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform

["Server Dave" <d2ba@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Joe,
 US $5O to 60K seems a good price for Unlimited Clients.
A Quad Xeon box, SQL Server Enterprise 2000, Win 2000 A/S depending on
clients would easily cost that or more.


Dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 1:42 AM
Subject: RE: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Server Dave
> >
> > Joe,
> > How much would a good AS/400 box cost these days say in PC power the
equal
> > to
> > a IBM  Netfinity 7100,7600 that is running Quad Pentium III Xeon CPUs
and
> > say 2G of
> > memory.
> > Do you have to pay for number of clients that can connect and what is
the
> > cost of
> > Development tools you would use per box.
>
> It's impossible to flatly compare two boxes.  For what workload?  How many
> users?  I don'[t know enough about a Netfinity procesor.
>
> On the other hand, I do know an entry level AS/400 fully loaded is about
> US$50-60K.  This will get you a model 270 with plenty of horsepower and
all
> the development tools.
>
> Joe
>
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