Re: Sizing a new iSeries

Boy, a rumor like that one at the bottom would really take the wind out of 
IBM's sales for the short term.  I wouldn't be surprised if IBM doesn't 
let the dogs loose on you, and your provider, for passing that one.

I've not heard that.  Has anyone else?  Or is this just a WAG on the part 
of the provider?

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Karl Keller" <kkeller@girling.com>
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01/28/2003 04:59 PM
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Hi List,
        I was creating a ballpark proposal based on some the pricing i've
seen for a new iSeries. This new box would replace a model 510 with a CPW
rating of 112 and a model 500 with a CPW rating of 44. We have about 100
interactive 5250 users so that takes us out of the new model 800's. So the
next step up would be a model 810. The entry level 810 with the enterprise
software has a batch and interactive CPW rating of 1020. So I'm thinking
that this is really overkill but our only option. I contacted our 3rd 
party
sales rep to get some ball park pricing on the additional software we 
would
need and told him what I was thinking regarding the Model 810. He informed
me that my CPW assumptions were way off base. He said that as a rule of
thumb, for every 50 CPW of interactive, you need 1000 CPW of batch!

        Has anyone ever heard this before? Is this true? He also mentioned
that there was going to be a promotion for legacy customers such as us 
which
would be similar to the greenstreak promotion last year. What do you think
about that?

TIA

Karl
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