Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep - you are right. I also added the "apples to apples" thing, but he still 
compared different things. I think his apple may have a worm in it?

And, what I find interesting is that few companies actually ever run more 
than one application on a single Windows server at the same time. Multiple 
applications on an i are something we are just used to...

Oh well, back to my mac... I think it has a Power4 in it..

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:41 PM
Subject: RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch


> > From: Trevor Perry
> >
> > I expect that 4x faster is just a number you made up. And it was not
> > considering apples to apples.
>
> Trevor, you can try to fight this battle, but Steve really just brings up
> the exact same argument.  He specifically ignores the concept of number of
> users and TCO, and just hammers on the one-note song of 
> "price/performance".
>
> Interestingly enough, even the reference he cites, which compares various
> iSeries models with a "comparable" Dell, shows that the price per user for
> the new iSeries models is far LOWER than the Dell.
>
> The $22000 p5 machine he's talking about is a little 4-processor machine
> with two disk arms.  I don't know about you, but I've got a machine with
> more than half that horsepower (dual 3.2 Xeons and 150GB of 15K disk) as 
> my
> workstation and I can bog it down all by myself.  I'd be interested to see
> how many developers you can get going on the p5 he's talking about. 
> Whereas
> I KNOW you can get a whole bunch of people working on an iSeries 520.
>
> Joe