Re: New 250 better than 170's from IBM on eBay

From: <JOberholtzer@compures.com>
> With all due respect to the technical experts that  contribute to the list,
> the ability those of us have to properly design and configure an iSeries to
> meet customer expectations is a different skill than knowing OS/400 and its
> associated LPP's.   That's why business partners spend so much money, time,
> and energy to understand all of the options and details that go into even a
> simple order of a 250

somebody must be paying for all that "money, time, and energy".
I'm sure that it is the consumer in the end, not the BP, not IBM.


How many cables to you need for an entry-level box?
And can't IBM figure out to ship that?

I understand your argument when we are talking about a
$5M box to server a 1000 users, with connections to SNA,
multiple modems, tape drives, printers, etc, but "a simple
250" entry box?

Now, of course, one should not ask the barber
if one needs a haircut :-)