Re: now THIS is a marketing program

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

Do you know that this group comprises primarily System i proponents and
evangelists? Promoting a server that is inferior is rather inappropriate for
this forum. I suggest you find a new audience.

Trevor



On 5/20/07 10:17 PM, "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What a great marketing idea! IBM is offering a 60 day test drive of p5
> 510 and 520 models.
>
> http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPublicUSA/en_US/systemp/testdrive
> _1.html
>
> ITJungle reports the p6 servers will be launched on monday.
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh052107-story05.html
>
> "...System i servers based on Power6 and running i5/OS V5R4 and/or
> V5R5 are not expected until late 2007 or early 2008. The i5/OS and
> OS/500 base will have to make do with Power5+ machines and i5/OS V5R4
> software until that time. ..."
>
> too bad though, we have to wait.  A 7000 CPW i615 would be a great
> system. No need for efficient RPG, with its various string data types.
> You could run pure Java business applications on such a system.
>
> -Steve