Re: The real skinny

Back to the topic, so you are saying you can buy (at list) an iSeries server
for $2500? Where do you see that? The cheapest thing I see is much more than
that.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:11 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
> --
> This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing
> list
> To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
> visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
> or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
> at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
>
>


--
Mike Wills

Check out my music show at http://thenextgenerationofradio.com
--
This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list
To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l
or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.