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To steal a line from Red October "You arrogant ass, you've killed US!" That is, kill all your i5 partners and you've killed the System i. Many of us (yes I am one of them) don't do p for a reason: we believe in i.I will cut to the conclusion and say the answer is to have i5/os as a supported OS on the p5 and do away with i5 hardware models, i5 only business partners, a lot of i5 marketing. <snip>
Better instead to put more arrows in our quiver. With the hardware essentially identical already why not let us sell more models?
Software monies go other places within IBM. $4000 for a small p cannot possibly make them significant margins and likely is a loss.There are not many published numbers to know for sure, but I dont agree the p5 is a low profit item for IBM. The $4000 for the lowest price p5 is still $4000. AIX, Linux and software subscription are in the $1000 range. DB2 brings in a good profit at $724 for the first user, $124 for additional users or $4874 per processor. Double those charges for DB2 on the enterprise ( bigger than 2 cores ) models.
- Larry
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