Please re-read what I said Steve. Like others stated it is new sales AND
existing maint. Obviously IBM is going to get more maint off of an iSeries
because a lot more is bundled with most installs (i.e. DB2, OS400, WDS5722,
etc).
Another interesting thing (and I don't know if it was you Steve or somebody
else that was saying this) is that some on this list think they should
decouple EVERYTHING to do with the System i5 (i.e. take off DB2/OS400/etc)
so people don't have to pay for that out of the box. On the flip (linux)
side I see distros wanting to ship their code with the best and most used
toolsets (i.e. Dell with Unbuntu and OpenOffice/FireFox/Evolution/etc) to
save the headache of finding/downloading/installing these tools after a
purchase. Why are we fighting to go away from "prepackaged" when others are
heading towards it?
I think we sometimes put ourselves into the mindset that if System i5
scenarios aren't how Windows or Linux does it then we need to change so we
can compete in the race when in all reality the System i5 is much further
along in certain areas compared to other platforms. I would consider
prepackaging the DB and OS as one such case.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:56 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Hardware (was: System i Innovation Award --
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On 5/3/07, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sales are down 6 quarters in a row. 2 more quarters of down sales and
IBM
might pull the plug on the system.
Steve, as you are making your statements please be aware of this
tidbit fact I picked up at COMMON from the mouth of Mark Shearer (and
I paraphrase) "The combination of support and sales of System i5
hardware accounts for 1/2 of IBM's hardware monies". I don't believe
the System i5 is going anywhere soon and making statements saying IBM
is going to pull the plug is simply silly IMO.
you say silly, I say bullsh** ;) How does Shearer come up with that number?
Based on reports in ITJungle, the z,x and p are each doing $1B sales per
quarter and the i is less than $250M. That puts system i hardware sales at
less than 10% of the total. How does 10% become 50%??
-Steve
midrange.com
