Re: Help me Justify iSeries I5????

Our current P5 running AIX 5.3 will be removed from service in about 18 
months....at that time I will seriously consider an i5 with LPAR and run em 
both.



On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:39:40 -0500, rob wrote
> No.  There's i5/os and i5 the machine.
> Right - you don't buy i5/os and run it on different hardware.
> But, you can buy i5 hardware and not run i5/os on it.  You could run 
> Linux or Aix on it.  However, if anyone hears of someone who bought 
> an i5 and didn't run any i5/os let me know.  Although I did hear of 
> someone who had no i5 history who bought one and stuffed it full of 
> IXS cards as their SAN device.
> 
> Rob Berendt
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> Isn't i5 the OS and iSeries the machine? 
> Can you buy i5 and run it on some other machine?
> Don't you buy <char>Series machines?
>   buy an i5 at a deeply discounted price providing that you sign the 
> "This
> 
>   machine is for DR purposes only" form.  Talk to your software 
> vendors. 
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