The article is really a crock of Sh1t. Why should it jungle be promoting
the doom and gloom of the platform when it is NOT true. Its Hype and media
sensationalism. It's what I refer to as what comes out the back end of a
Bull.
Now, I can't argue any of those numbers as I don't know that, but here is
something to think about. If IBM were to merge the iSeries and pSeries
hardware wouldn't there be some overlap and shared costs savings? Could
that be why the budgets are lower? They are using the same PowerVM, FSP,
enclosures, power, racks, CPU, Memory, disk, etc. Shouldn't the R&D for
these items now be less. Shouldn't this drive costs down for us.
While I can't get into specifics, IBM has already made public statements
about V7R1, and while in Rochester last year, they had development plans
going out quite a few years.
With that all said, I know Neil for quite a few years and I am surprised of
the negativity of that article. I am not knocking Neil, just the article. I
believe this machine and operating system will be here for a while.
Pete Massiello
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FWIW i never hang my hat on anything said at IT Jungle. too many times
have i looked at their viewpoint/stance and found it to be total hogwash.
IMO no one should give them any credence whatsoever. should they start
writing *good* credible articles i'll start listening...
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
From:
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
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Date:
05/04/2008 08:42 PM
Subject:
ibm i development budget
Neil Palmer writes in ITJungle this week:
"...I really want to believe that there is a "next 20 years" as Mark said
at
COMMON, but looking back at the past year, we've seen the i5/OS
development
budget progressively chopped from around $130 million to around $28
million.
..."
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh050508-story04.html
Is that accurate? $28 million budgeted for working on enhancements to the
base OS? Does that number include bug fixes and PTFs?
With that kind of a limited budget, I question if there will be a v6r2.
-Steve
midrange.com
