Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan,

That's in effect what's going on now.  You buy a config of say 600 CPW,
but are constrained to only using 45 for interactive until you "BUY" more
interactive...

Well, from a person that used to using ALL of the 1.7ghz of their servers
on the intel platforms to look at a proposal and realize that they're
paying $110,000USD for a machine that they can only use 45/600th of, is a
bit of an annoyance and one helluva SOB to sell!

Nathan, would you pay $110,000 for a system you were only allowed to use
7.5% of!?  These numbers are approximate, but close enough to what I was
faced with this week in trying to talk a Fortune 100 client to upgrade...

OH, BTW, the Intel servers would only could a couple grand....FAR from teh
$110,000 +/- so we're faced with the same kinda scenerio Borts was down at
JC Penney....

It's also a easy way to be thought an idiot and laughed out of someone's
office!

Don in DC

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Nathan M. Andelin wrote:

> From: "Don" <dr2@cssas400.com>
> > The NON-IBM world is of the mentality that if they buy
> > a machine that runs at 1.7ghz that they should be able to use
> > ALL OF IT FOR THEIR APPLICATIONS...NOT have some
> > bullshit cycle killer like CFINTxx come in and creat a forced
> > cap on performance.
>
> I tend to agree that CFINT must be a public relations nightmare for IBM and
> its Business Partners.  The idea of a program that does little more than
> burn cycles sounds like a virus.  No wonder people get offended.
>
> Maybe the way to solve this negative perception is to remove the governor,
> and license "Interactive Features" (the software) separately from OS/400.
> Base the Interactive Features price on the number of active sessions the
> software must support.  IBM may get the same revenue while avoiding the
> consequences of installing a program that acts like a virus.
>
> Of course, that may not solve the problem of iSeries poor price/performance
> perception.
>
> Nathan M. Andelin
> www.relational-data.com
>
>
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