If this box truly starts at $8K and qualifies for a 50% developer lease
the cost should be around $4K as is and a little more with additional
memory and disk.
$4K financed for 36 months would appear to be less than $150/month.
At a 1% lease rate the $8K machine would be $85/month.
Why is that unaffordable for the small developer ? That's one or two
hours of consulting time per month.
FYI: We currently do most of our iSeries main development on a 270 with
1000cpw and 1gb main storage and this seems to be relatively adequte with
V5R1 on the box. Not sure how that would play on the new box but with
3800 CPW on the box, things should move.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
RJS Software Systems Inc.
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message: 5
date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:30:38 -0400
from: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: New i5 Express Models
Am I the only one who is a little disappointed by the recent
announcements?
From earlier statements by Mark Shearer and others I had been expecting
to
see something oriented towards the smaller developer. Maybe $5 - 6K or
so.
As best I can tell the new ones are a minimum of $8K and the configuration
at that level more than a little memory and disk constrained.
Maybe I'm mismembering, but surely there have been model 270s in this
price
category before?
What am I missing guys? Right now it looks as if my hopes of owning a
system are back on hold again.
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com
midrange.com
