Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

Leif:

Understood, agreed, all well and good, etc., etc. But that still evades the 
question that was asked which was what's the difference to the customer between 
a software and a hardware limitation? Neither cost nor effect would be 
different (assuming precise engineering of course).  The limitation would exist 
either way. So, ??? Does it actually matter what the mechanism is?

Tom Liotta

On Thu, 08 November 2001, "Leif Svalgaard" wrote:

>
> 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.)
>
> ÝÝ>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.
>
>
>
>
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