Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is the pricing value of the System i in the hardware, or in the 
consistency of the platform software over decades?

Steve Richter wrote:
> On 12/8/06, Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I expect that 4x faster is just a number you made up. And it was not
> > considering apples to apples.
>
>  this quad core p5 has 4x the CPW of a single core i5:
> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/entry/550/91331efa.html
>
> here is an ITJungle chart showing the i5 to be 2x the price:
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh110606-story02-fig02.html
>
> you dont have to answer of course, but I would like to know what IBM
> is thinking in terms of pricing of the system i5.  The user and vendor
> community could build a new GUI that works with green screen apps, but
> such a thing would likely go nowhere if the base i5 remains geared
> down and over priced.
>
> -Steve