Re: Power7

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 15:47, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is one of my favorite misconceptions. Â"Windows updates are free".
Bull puckey.

Windows Updates & Service Packs are free. Interim releases are not.
Software Assurance, which is SOMEWHAT the same (it has much less
support than IBM's SWMA includes) is also quite expensive. Especially
since you'll need to cover all your CALs and clients too.

Most shops think that Windows licensing is cheap because they don't
actually have enough licenses to do what they're doing.

ÂEach release of Windows requires more
hardware to run,

Not true. The R2 releases of Windows server so far have never had
additional hardware requirements.

and it's usually a pain in the ass to upgrade.

Depends on the Application. Just like on the IBM i.

Just
transitioning your Active Directory from one version to another is a
headache.

No, that's easy as pie if you know what you're doing.

With i5/OS, upgrading is a hell of a lot simpler.

With that i can fully agree, but again, it depends on the application.

"Setting up your windows network is not hard at all". ÂAnother fine
myth. ÂSetting up a Windows network is not hard. ÂSetting one up well so
that it can grow is difficult.

I can only agree with you there. There's a lot of people that do it
"wrong" and wonder 2 years later why they suddenly have issues.

Wrong again. ÂThere are three decades of application suites out there
running literally millions of users that have never required a single DBA.

It's not as easy as you're trying to make it. Most of them throw money
at IBM to fix simple issues like missing indexes - of course you can
run a 10'000'000 row table from 32 SSDs and get good performance, or
you could just create the indexes you need and run it from 6 15kRPM
disks in RAID5.