Some things to consider is what market or technical issues are faced
with the deployment of the new hardware.
Based on overall market issues you will probably always see the new
processors on the p side of things first. Not that the i isn't driven
by performance factors but I think it is less than the p. Granted I'm
going to hear a lot of emails where people need it but our market just
isn't based on pure performance as much as the p. I sse that changing
more and more over time so maybe that will become less of a delay over
time.
We also tend to suffer from integration or support issues. One thing
that is very nice is that with new models you don't have to be on the
latest version of i5/OS any more. The n-1 (or whatever you call it)
mentality is very nice and probably creates some more testing and
integration issues. For example, we just moved from an 825 to a 570+
model. It was sooooo nice not having to be on V5R4. If V5R4 was a
requirement we would have probably had to delay our purchase by about 12
months.
Not that the p doesn't have to test or integrate but there are some
differences.
It does suck watching a nice technical leap being played out in the
market and not being able to take advantage of it. But I wouldn't be in
to much of a hurry to make it more of an issue than it is. We will get
what the p has soon enough.
Michael Crump
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN 47302
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:11 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Power6 on System i
On 5/23/07, Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eric,
The trend towards hardware platform consolidation has been long in the
making...
I dont understand what the holdup is with i5/OS running on
consolidated hardware. Ian Jarman says there is no technical or
performance reason i5/OS cannot run on the p5. But he says customers
dont want it ( which again I dont understand because the p5 is sold in
the blade config that i5 customers say they want ).
Waiting until 2008 for the power6 on system i will hurt system i sales
in the meantime, right?
-Steve
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