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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 19:46, Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is hard to get
people to run Java apps on i when they run on PC many many times
faster.
This is only partially a technical problem.
In my experience, IBM i doesn't scale well to machines with a low arm
count (2 arms) and low memory (2GB) - that's the technical part. And
that wouldn't be so bad if there wasn't the real problem:
IBM's insane pricing.
IBM POWER
4532 4096MB (2x2048MB) RDIMMs, 667 MHz, 1Gb DRAM 1 1'870.00 CHF
IBM System x
46C7419 4 GB (2x2GB kit) Dual Rank PC2-5300 CL5 ECC Low Power 360 CHF
Hell yeah. The same memory. Both without any services. I realize the
price can be even lower if you buy Off-Brand Memory, but that's not
part of the discussion.
Point is that IBM charges 5x as much for IBM POWER memory as for
System x memory.
I wouldn't be writing this if there was a slight discrepancy - for
example, IBM POWER memory being 1.5x as expensive as the same System x
memory.
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