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Ron, on the i5 for Disaster Recovery, go back to your business partner and get them to configure a High Availability box. IBM has some fairly decent discounts if the box is HA only. Am sending you two documents in an email to you directly. ************************** Have a blessed day! Anne C Lucas Customer Account Executive Genisys Group Inc, an IBM Business Partner Work 205-823-4831 Mobile 205-746-6850 eFax 615-250-4889 AOL Instant Messaging: So Anne Lucas ron_adams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 05/26/2005 09:23 PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject Help me Justify iSeries My boss has the impression that running on the iSeries/AS400 is more costly than a Wintel platform with something like Oracle or SQL Server. I'm a staunch supporter of the iSeries, however, my boss who came from a Microsoft environment seems to think its so much more expensive to stay on the iSeries due to hardware and software costs. How can I convince him that this where our business needs to be? Or, has the time come to give up the fight? BTW: the scale-tipping factor was the high cost of a backup machine for D-R purposes. We're looking at about $20K to buy a new low-end 520 with V5R3 and enough DASD to put in another location as a hot-site. The production machine is an Enterprise Class 520 that we purchased in Sept of last year. The total cost including all of our software licenses was around $200K. I hate to say it, but I think he may be right. I agree that iSeries is a stable and secure platfor that is highly capable of running our business, but unfortunately, they're only looking at the bottom line. Thanks, Ron Adams
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