RE: Cheaper Servers?

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Buck,

I would differentiate between an entry level server and a personal
version of OS/400.  One of the reasons that IBM gives for not pushing
iSeries solutions in their consulting business is that they have
difficulty recruiting recent college graduates with OS/400 experience.
One of the reasons many managers would not consider an iSeries is that
they've never used one.  If a very-low-cost personal version of the
system was available for an Intel platform, perhaps with a client limit
of one, then college students could use the system and gain the
familiarity that none of them have.

I can think of no other way to make OS/400 ubiquitous, given the
circumstances of the marketplace.

Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> John Carr wrote:
>
> > If we share the same hardware, and IBM OWNS  OS/400 and AIX
> > and they are putting relatively the same R&D money into both,
> >
> > Should the iSeries cost the same as a pSeries  ( +/-   a few $)  ??
>
> I briefly spoke with Dr Soltis at the recent Northeast IBM Conference.
I
> asked him to put OS/400 on a laptop to distribute to universities.  He
> told
> me that he floated the idea and nobody was interested, including
COMMON.
> Apparently, if IBM can't find demand, they're disinclined to fire up a
> production line to create dumpster-filler.
>
> This may be an opportunity for us to tell Rochester that we're
interested
> in
> a low-cost OS/400.
>   --buck