RE: Cheaper Servers? -- MIDRANGE-L

... I never mentioned Intel processors, I used the term 'laptop', perhaps I
could have used the term 'portable'.

At a previous employer the sales/marketing team 'lugged' a model 150 around
the world (!!!) to demonstrate the business applications they had for sale.
The prospects liked to see applications running native, not over a comms
link.  The poor little 150 was bashed to bits many times by the airline
baggage handlers, even though it was reasonably protected in a custom made
case.

A portable AS/400 is what is needed.  The electronic guts of a 150/170 style
system could surely be repackaged, perhaps further miniaturised, and made
truly portable, e.g. carried as airline hand-baggage.  I bet the component
technology already exists, the casing and marketing ... well IBM ?

Jeff Bull

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Lang [mailto:aalang@rutgersinsurance.com]
Sent: 09 April 2002 16:25
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Cheaper Servers?


Nope.  Doubt it would work.  Part of AS/400 (and Mac for that point too)
robustness is the fact of a limited set of hardware to support.

If you have IBM developing OS/400 for Intel AND the millions of hardware
possible, it will tank.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 11:20 AM
Subject: RE: Cheaper Servers?


> 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
>
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