I love your anti-iSeries rants/ravings....from the same articles (which
you chose to exclude:
"What I learned was that enabling more than 3,000 applications was not
enough," Shearer said. "By having a more focused approach, we have been
able to generate far more demand for the System i. We have found this to
be a more effective approach compared to generic advertising and generic
marketing."
In the keynote address, Shearer said that since he has taken the helm of
the System i division, IBM has invested over $1 billion in processors,
operating system enhancements, systems software, and application and
certification for the i5/OS platform.
And he conceded that many i5/OS shops have told IBM that it charges too
much for the i5, which has just about everything bundled in as well as
integrated, and the new user-priced i5 515 and 525 systems were designed
to address these concerns. "Many of you have said that you do not mind
paying a fair premium for a System," he said, but indicated that going
forward, IBM has understood that technical integration does not have to
be equated with bundled software and functions. (Many of us have been
banging this drum for years.) Shearer explained that with the new i5 515
and 525 machines and the changes that IBM made software pricing on the
existing i5 550, 570, and 595 machines--which can now have am i5/OS
license for application serving that does not include DB2/400--were
aimed at "pricing the i5 system to the value delivered." Such an
attitude is, of course, something that many of us welcome for the i5/OS
platform. And Shearer hinted that this was just the beginning. "We will
bring this across the line, but it is not going to happen over night."
As usual...you are anti-iSeries(or whatever they choose to call it)..so
again I have to ask...why are you here? As pointed out many times in
the past...if we went to a Mac or Windoze forum or list and spouted
stuff against the platform we'd be banned in 10 mins...
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
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Subject: IBM focused on i5/OS accounts instead of i5 system sales
Timothy Prickett quotes Mark Shearer in his latest ITJungle report:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh050707-story01.html
"..., Shearer explained why IBM was focused on the i5/OS and OS/400
accounts instead of on i5 system sales. He said that based on surveys
of the customer base in the United States, IBM has calculated that for
every $1 customers spend on i5 systems, they spend an additional $2.60
on Windows systems and another 40 cents on Unix systems and external
storage arrays. ..."
"..."We not going to push people to new technology--they're already
there," Shearer admitted. "And we want to do a better job selling
blade servers, SANs, and other technologies to System i customers. We
still have some work to do to make the selling seamless." ..."
"...When pressed about the potential for getting real growth for the
i5 systems themselves, Shearer did not want to get into any specifics.
"It depends on how you look at the boundaries," he said. "If you
define it in a holistic way, I believe that can grow. I am thinking of
the System i as a marketplace, not as a processor and an operating
system. We need to make it easier to integrate these products and
encourage companies to buy IBM's products." ..."
I read this as IBM saying we dont mind customers leaving the system i,
what we dont want to happen is customers leave IBM. Good for IBM, bad
for technical types with an i5/OS skillset.
-Steve
midrange.com
