Re: If there were a sufficient money stream in the "ma and pas", IBM would

On 8/2/06, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

imho - i think the application vendors bear at least half the
responsibility -
the ibm sales team partnered with "maps" and "vars" to present mom & pop
shops with that solution tied to one monthly payment. IBM still making
the hardware and OS, more powerful, and cheaper than ever - but
where are the solution providers? (and i know ibm is working hard to get
solutions ported "to" the i5).

more powerful and cheaper??  The ITJungle comparison shows an i520
rated at 12,000 TPM for $26K. A comparable Xeon server will do 40,000
TPM and costs $15K. And the pricing difference cant be explained by
IBM's higher costs. An entry level p5, dual core powerPC, AIX, user
base DB2 pricing is price/performance comparable to the Xeon
server/Windows OS/SQL Server config.

-Steve