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Joe,

Just a quick clarification, since it is not so clear. Are you referring to
used servers only?

You cannot buy an iSeries new from IBM any more. In fact, last month was the
two year anniversary of the end of the iSeries product line.

Does the complaint stretch to the current server line? Will it stretch to
the new Power6 blades as well?

Just checking.
Trevor



On 2/15/08 9:11 AM, "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just wanted to get one thing out there very clear.

There has long been a big complaint in the community that the iSeries is
priced out of the hands of small developers. And in reality that's been
the case, both with hardware and software. They've both always been
priced at the enterprise level, and with good reason. IBM hardware,
with it's IOP/IOA structure, has allowed small CPUs to handle more
business application users than pretty much any other system
architecture devised.

But now we're no longer constrained by hardware costs, and as the price
of hardware plummeted the next barrier was software cost. Especially in
this day of "free" tools, the tiered pricing of the machine has been an
issue. But now IBM has finally addressed that as well.

Because now, a single developer can buy a cheap machine and instead of
paying $3650 for green screen development tools can now get a full
GUI/ILE development environment for $2600. And that's list; a lot of
times those tools get bundled into the express packages for half-price
or less. And after that, your SWMA drops to $260 a year. Not a bad deal.

So now even a small developer can reasonably think about an i5/OS
machine as a component of their network for four figures; in fact, about
the same as a fully-loaded Windows server (with RAID and tape backup).

Is it perfect? No. Is it free? No. But is it the right direction?

I think so.

Joe



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