Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.

It is all very sweet. I know one entity that has just 3 users on the system. The best I could do at the time was $25k (with a few growth tweaks). Now they could have gotten in for around $10k and had a fairly robust system they could grow with.

This could open plenty of application opportunities. In our case Nathan, we compete in a market where very small users will compare a $40k solution using System i to a $10k system from Dell, HP or even IBM. Now the System i might be about $15k. This evens the playing field at our end of the market, even though it is still early in the game. IBM is at least trying to breath some new life into the platform.

Pete

Nathan Andelin wrote:

Basically the pitch was they *can't* enforce it and are relying on
the licensing owner to enforce the licensing requirements.

That's good to know. And maybe the honor system will work. Maybe it will
depend on whether people think IBM is taking them to the cleaners or not, which
motivated a lot of people to try Fast400 a few years ago.

Actually the price / performance on these new models seems very good. A 1.9
Ghz processor running full-bore (3800 CPW) is very good. IBM seems to be
serious about competing against Wintel servers at running CGI/J2EE/PHP
workloads.

Thanks,

Nathan.





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