RE: Cheaper Servers? - Been there - done that

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From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
Now, y'all can tell me why this did not fly the last time IBM tried this. I
don't know, personally.
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IMHO, I think part of the reason it didn't fly is the same reason IBM almost
lost their share of the PC market at one time, they were afraid it would
take sales from larger system sales.  With the power of computers today,
it's has to be hard to make a system like the iSeries, that has the
resources to run a full scale application for demo purposes without someone
using it to run their business.

As an end user, I know that originally, IBM only wanted to sale the
"luggables" to business partners for just that reason.  In the end, they
were forced to sale it to end users anyway, after putting some restrictions
into the box.  This was before CINIT, but even then customers didn't like to
hear, "You can't buy one" or "Only one user can logon".

Let's face it IBM has a time positioning the iSeries today after it has made
billions, year after year for the organization.   How can it be expected
they would understand the concept of an laptop iseries.

IBM isn't in business "not to make money" or "to give stuff away free", but
sometimes they are very wrong on how to make money also.

My 2 cents (discounted to "nothing") and worth what was paid.

David Boling