RE: HASB mulls new computer system

Has any one priced terminal server from Microsoft lately?  What about
Citrix Server to run on top of your Windows Server?  Now add SQL
Enterprise to that box.  Go ahead a build a system to support 25 Citrix
user and a data base application.  Put it all on one Windows Server.
How much have you spent?  If you want to compare to Windows, at least
configure the Windows Server to serve up your applications.

Enough Said.

Christopher Bipes
Information Services Director
CrossCheck, Inc.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
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Subject: Re: HASB mulls new computer system


As I read your posts the customer wants an application which is access
thru the browser.  Putting MSFT to the side, the xSeries or p5 based
solution has an IBM starting price of $5K to $10K.  For similar
performance on the i5, that is 3000 CPW, the starting price is $22K+. 
Why pay the extra $15K? For green screen compatibility that the
customer can do without?

The villain here is not the uninformed customer.  It is IBM pricing of
the i5.

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh032706-story01.html

"... Like many people in the OS/400 community, if I have an argument
at all, it is almost never with IBM's Rochester labs, ....., but
rather with IBM's Somers offices, where the marketing and sales plans
are hatched and where the pricing and packaging decisions are made.
... Getting Somers to listen is hard, since the marketeers aim to make
as much money in the shortest term with the least possible amount
effort. They do this because that's what marketeers at public
companies do. ..."