Re: Another iSeries bites the dust -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Lukas,
Do you buy a new car every year?

I don't buy cars, i lease them. After four years, i lease another. Repeat.

Makes the cost easy to calculate, minimizes the risk of the car
breaking down on the road, makes the cost of replacing non-disposable
supplies exactly zero, since the car is under warranty all the time.
And on the off case that the car indeed breaks down, i can have a
replacement while it is being repaired with no additional cost to me.

Just like when i buy servers - for three years, with three year full
coverage for both hardware and software, and then replace them when
they're nearing the time where there MAY be hardware failures. IBM
guarantees recovery of the hardware in case of a hardware fault.

This minimizes the risk for me (in case of the car) or the risk of the
business (in case of the server). The other variant is to count on
luck, that the unsupported hard & software you have will not break
down. I don't think counting on luck is considered a viable business
strategy, but to each his own.

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