RE: POWER6 Pricing for Small Businesses vs. System x / SBS Pricing

One thing that jumped out at me....

Microsoft Direct Support, 5 Calls per year, 3 years (3230 CHF)

vs. Unlimited calls for IBM support.

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:23 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: POWER6 Pricing for Small Businesses vs. System x / SBS
Pricing

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I find this very interesting. Basically, if the disks and memory were
priced competitively, the i would be cheaper. Of course, that insane

5K

maintenance is a pain, but that's a different issue.

Yep - and IMHO this is a huge problem.

As for software, I really don't think you can do proper systems
development with VS Express. Someone else can chime in. If not, add
another 6-7K for VS Professional. Then you have 25K vs 12K. Is i5/OS
worth twice Windows? You have to decide that for yourself.

Well, comparing the software 100% fairly is not possible. e.G. SBS
includes Exchange and SPS, where the IBM aequivalent would be
Domino/Notes. So i still think the end price tag is somewhat valid.

(Yes, SBS is dirt cheap exactly to get you hooked on the whole
Microsoft thing - prices as soon as you move past the 30-40 user range
and in the territory of multiple Windows servers will be en-par with
IBM. While this is nice to know, a Small Business does not give a f*ck
about this)

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