RE: Is the death of CFINT available for current AS/400 owners?

> From: "Joe Pluta"
> At this point, I'd be sitting back and saying,
> "Where's the beef?"

Here's the beef (well, one example):

Model 270-2248 with 25/150 CPW and having a base price of 12,000 vs. Model
800-2463 with 25/300 CPW and having a base price of 10,000.

> remember, in the new structure, you can't get
> just a little interactive - it's all or nothing.

IBM may be right on target here.  They may see so many shops using the
system almost exclusively for traditional workloads.  A substantial cut in
"interactive" price/performance may be just the incentive they need to buy a
new box - and begin experimenting with Websphere.

The old incremental pricing for interactive resources perhaps simply didn't
reflect the way most people would use the box.  Although the new pricing
remains to be seen, the vibrations are encouraging.

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com