Re: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

From: "Don" <dr2@cssas400.com>

> Nathan, would you pay $110,000 for a system you were
> only allowed to use 7.5% of!?

That would be pretty silly.

It seems to me that the CRUX of the problem is that IBM markets "Interactive
Features" as hardware.  Then IBM comes up with a gimmick like Interactive
CPW to define the hardware capacity.  Then IBM comes up with something
resembling a virus (CFINT) to control access to that capacity.  It's out of
sync with peoples expectations of hardware.

On the other hand, when people license Client Access (for example) for 1000
users, they expect to pay more than when they license Client Access for only
one user.  In my opinion, IBM ought to sell Interactive Features as
software.

If 7.5% of my users needed one set of software features, and 92.5% needed
another set of software features, and both sets of user had 100% access to
the hardware, and TCO was comparable to the competition, then I might buy
it.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com