Re: Help me Justify iSeries I5????

["Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are correct and when we leased the existing box they did just that, 
however in looking forward we will eliminate one machine and get better use 
of our resources by combining the two....at least it appears so at this 
point.  Then again, I still have 18 months to change my mind :)


On Fri, 27 May 2005 11:13:03 -0500, rob wrote
> Good for you.  But both is different than AIX only on an i5.  IBM 
> would probably (and rightly so) suggest a p5 instead of an i5 if all 
> you were running was AIX.
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> Rob Berendt
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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
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> >   machine is for DR purposes only" form.  Talk to your software 
> > vendors. 
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