Re: Sizing a new iSeries

["Karl Keller" <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Hmmm, Perhaps I misunderstood what my provider was telling me.
 It was after all an informal discussion and not a proposal.


>>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