Re: POWER6 now or later?

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

I believe you are on track. The 'Huggable Luggable' was great for demo's 
and shows and such but that's a small market. With all the bandwidth 
available today that market is satisfied by remote access. For the 
developers there is some potential gain in this but a small market once 
more. This market too will largely be swallowed up with V6R1 as it can 
host virtual i5/OS partitions. So each developer who wants one can have 
a partition of their own for 1/10th of a processor and a couple GB of 
memory and some disk space. No way that's gonna be more expensive than 
an entire system unit plus dasd plus tape and it's own copy of i5/OS 
with maintenance and SWMA. The promised Blade implementation may also 
address this space as well.

Would IBM like to be able to sell you this desktop developer system? I'm 
positive they would! Is there a business case for building it? I don't 
think so.

- Larry

Booth Martin wrote:
> I am still not sure I understand the business case for a desktop unit.  
> Portability, for marketing I suppose?  But after that very small need, 
> then what?  Besides, if the goal is portability then why not a laptop?
>
> If the battle is for price alone, then other solutions seem 
> quicker/easier/more responsive?
>
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