Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

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

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