Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

From: <thomas@inorbit.com>
On Thu, 08 November 2001, Chris Rehm wrote:
> What is the difference to your customer between IBM controlling CFINT with
> a governor or IBM actually manufacturing boxes with different levels of
> processor performance and physical limitation? If you went out and bought a
> 50 CPW machine then, you wouldn't be upset that it only handled 50 CPW,
> right? Would it be possible then to get down to the real issue of whether
> or not the features are worth the money they are being charged for?

I believe this is at the heart of the whole question. And I don't think
anybody's answered it effectively yet. (Yeah, sure, some are upset that IBM
might be claiming it's 'hardware' when it's really 'software'. But that
merely evades the questions above.)

===>My answer would be that on other platforms the price of
computing halves every 18 months. This decrease is mirrored
on the AS/400 is decreasing server prices. But green screen
computing does not benefit from this decrease because of
the interactive tax. Someone said no too long ago that customers
shouldn't whine: green screen computing has not gone up in
price over the past decade. But it hasn't dropped in the same way
as server computing has. That is the rub IMHO.