Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/8/06, Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> What makes you think I have any more "in" to IBM than anyone else, in regard
> to pricing?

just hoping they were talking to you. That way you could tell us if
they were going to improve things price wise.  What is the problem,
from IBM marketing's POV, with user based pricing?  It would be great
to be able to market 5 user SOHO scale i5/OS apps that run on dual and
quad core p5 hardware.

> From what I see, IBM is working to make the System i more
> "competitive". Pricing is only one of the components.
>
> And, from what I see, TPM may have provided an "unbiased" view, but it was
> not a valid comparison between actual/real-life applications and servers -
> just server specs. Unbundle the functionality of a System i and add a price
> tag to each, compare multiple application sets on a single System i to
> multiple application sets on multiple Wintel servers, and you may have a
> valid comparison.

that has been the argument for years now and every year it becomes
less and less valid because the Intel hardware gets faster and faster.
This past summer the p5 doubled the performance of its systems and
kept the price the same. In mid 2007 the p5 gets faster still when the
power6 systems are announced.

-Steve