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A couple of months ago I spot-checked the price of taking our 2-way i5 570 to a 3/4-way for the express purpose of adding AIX. No extra RAM, disk, or anything else. Well, because of a certain "feature" called Enterprise Enablement, that has NOTHING to do with AIX and ONLY impacts i5/OS, the cost was more than buying a base 8-way p5. Now, the 8-way p5 properly configured with disk and RAM would cost the same or more, but that's for 8 (higher speed) CPUs, not 1. So much for consolidation. *sigh* I've made IBM aware of the disparity, but I doubt they'll feel inclined to do much about it.
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