RE: Lower End AS/400s

["Michael R" <michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Anyone know sales figures for iSeries? That would be a telling point I
think. Especially new sales, not upgrades.






> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Subject: RE: Lower End AS/400s
> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 14:09:22 -0600
>
> > From: Konrad Underkofler
> >
> > I was only going to resort to facts when you did,
> > since you whined about TCO, TCO, TCO, TCO without
> > ever giving an example I felt no need rebuke that
> > piece of your arguement.
>
> Total cost of ownership figures readily available from Gartner.  Do some
> research.
>
>
> > Hopefully the world will be free of iSeries zealots
> > and bigots some day.
>
> And instead populated by Nintechnicians.  The fact that you compare game
> development to business application development is a pretty telling fact in
> and of itself.
>
>
> > I am afraid all the ranting about
> > how great the AS/400 was/is just makes the people doing
> > it seem so out of touch with reality
>
> Nope, we just like facts.
>
>
> > not to mention
> > appearing to be a joke to the recent CS college grads.
>
> Again, I kind of like the fact that recent CS grads think I'm a joke.  It
> means I'm doing something right.
>
>
> > Enough! I will agree the iSeries is a great niche box
> > but to promote it as the best solution for all that
> > ails most companies is outright retarded.
>
> Never said "all that ails", and you know it.  This is hyperbole meant to
> obfuscate.  My point is that the AS/400 is the best business logic server
> on
> the planet, based on any of a number of measures, including but not limited
> to TCO, time to market, and ease of programming.  Combined with a solid
> n-tier design and a good GUI development team, it's the best business
> application server available.
>
> It's not an Xbox, and never will be.  We leave those to the CS grads.
>
> Joe
>
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