Re: Help me Justify iSeries

["Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Where is the sales person that sold the 520 to you last September?   S/He
could give the best help, especially as another sale is in the offing. 
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 05/26/05 21:25:55
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
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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