Re: Buying my first 515

Aaron,

BS should stand for Business Systems.

However, if they did release a BS server that runs i5/OS, Steve will still
complain that it costs too much, and everyone else will still call it an
AS/400.

In the meantime, you should probably not wait for Steve's speculations - I
would suggest that System p stands for premature. He is thinking with his
wishbone, not his knowbone. IBM has not suggested anything but a blade for
"new" i5/OS servers - and I am sure your rack is still waiting for that!

Trevor


On 8/8/07 11:56 AM, "albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

why not wait for the first BS system to be announced?

Timeframe for the BS system? BS=?

If it was going to be released in the next month or so I could probably
wait, but longer than that just isn't as much of an option.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:44 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Buying my first 515

On 8/8/07, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So this is going to be the second machine I have purchased (first one
about
1 year ago), but it is my first 515 and I was wondering if somebody
could look over my specs to see if anything is out of order or if you
have any recommendations.

why not wait for the first BS system to be announced? Maybe i5/OS will be
allowed to run on the market priced p5 entry. In that case you would pay $5K
for a dual core p5 vs $10K for a single core i5.

-Steve