RE: Lower End AS/400s

What are they doing?  Converting to NT?  Of course NT/Intel is cheaper.
Until you start talking about licenses for SQL server.  Or .NET.  It gets
expensive QUICK.  You thought IBM was bad.  Look at MS licensing fees.

A 270/820 with decent performance can be had on the cheap until this time
tomorrow (In US) - and compared to a few years ago, the low-ends are pretty
reasonable.

I don't understand your wording on the "last two releases" - do you need
something prior to V5R1?  V4R5 support is gone in 19 days.

Speaking from a numbers-only, cost perspective, yes the iSeries is more
expensive.

Speaking from a TCO, uptime, yatta yatta, it's a no brainer.  Whip out some
Gartner propaganda and show them what's up.

Best of luck.

jch

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Rasch [mailto:drasch@mail.win.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:12 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Lower End AS/400s



Just got back from one of those 'strategic' meetings, and learned why
the company is migrating away from the AS/400.  The reason is the
price of an entry model has become prohibitive.  We were using the
machines as a combination server/processor, and the combination of
only supporting the last two releases (with the required hardware
upgrades to support these releases) has priced the AS/400 out the back
door.

Whatever happened to Alan Alda's water pail and supporting customers
from the tiniest seedlings to a forest of giant Redwoods?  Why does IBM
think the AS/400 has to be the next generation of mainframes?

Does anyone have similar experiences, or is this a perception thing?

Couseling is in session.  You may approach the bench.......


Dan Rasch - because if the human species concentrated on the really
important things in life, there would be a shortage of fishing poles!
IBM Certified twice....... but still a couple PTFs away from Nirvana.

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