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Yes, I can see that, and that has almost always been our concern. I can
see the benefit of having an end to end solution but I don't think it
always applies in all business cases. However, in the smaller end - how
many times would any of us customers have preferred to put a small iSeries
out in the field but we couldn't afford it.......and perhaps if it was
available we would use OS/400 on a wrist watch. The question was valid, it
seems however, that our definition of scalable is about as consistent as to
what's wrong with iSeries marketing...... :-)
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I agree. Scalability only ever means "up" in planner's minds. The dread
is
that the company suddenly outgrow it's back office and not be able to send
product, invoices, or payables. That is the real issue in my experience.
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The issue here as most posts have pointed out is that no one can agree to
scalability or to it's actual relevance. No offense to the put it on a
watch people but I'm not sure how relevant that might be to my perspective
of what is scalable and how it is good for my business. While scaling down
to a diminutive form is of some business sense to some people, the benefits
of what I get out of the iSeries and OS/400 don't necessarily themselves
scale down to a smaller side. And based on the integrated nature of the
product (both hardware and software) I would fully expect it to be harder
to justify the cost and technical effort to get it there. Of course, that
is my perspective on scalable.........I fully understand that others won't
agree. But as mentioned before, that is my personal, professional, and
business take on scalable. It's not the only way but it definitely
works......
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May I ask a tangential question here? I have long wondered about something
pertaining to this discussion of unix & iSeries. Do unix shops deploy
Windows PCs or do they deploy Linux or some variant? Is the iSeries
pretty
well committed to needing Windows workstations? When one is discussing
scalability doesn't unix's ability to fill the need from keyboard to server
give unix the edge? In general what is the discussion one would make about
unix and the user workstations?
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Jones, John (US) wrote:
> To see how valid these claims about how much more expensive iSeries pros
> are than Unix pros, I ran the following. The numbers are approximate
> for a large metropolitan area but should be fairly close based on what
> I've observed. Please feel free to adjust and comment.
Interesting numbers, but they all assume more unix pros are needed than
iSeries pros. Why would you make such an assumption? All the numbers in
the world showing how much more expensive unix guys are over iSeries guys
are pointless if your initial assumption is wrong. Indeed, in my shop and
my customers' iSeries pros outnumber unix 2 to 1, yet in my shop unix
machines outnumber iSeries 4 to 1. My customers all have the same number
of unix machines as iSeries.
James Rich
It's not the software that's free; it's you.
- billyskank on Groklaw
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