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  3. December 2006

RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

From: Walden H. Leverich


Just trying to add some reality into the mix.


Fair enough, and I'd agree with your pricing (roughly), however, I think
the point was, those two machines, while costing the same, aren't even
close in processing power. A 8-way Xeon w/8Gig will blow the doors off
that System i spec.


Blow the doors off it how?

Will it support 100 users?  In what language?  As I've pointed out before, I
have a dual-Xeon workstation and I can bog it down all by my little self.
And you yourself note that any sort of disk access will kill it.

On pure web serving, it might be a great spec.  For concurrent transaction
processing, maybe not so cool.  But the iSeries will handle dozens, if not
100s, of users.

Joe

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