RE: Is TPM's Linux vs. IBM i pricing comparison valid?

That's one of the greatest speeches ever written. Reading it made my day. Thanks for sharing the link.

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Management keeps expecting people to continue to do more with less that I am constantly reminded of http://shakespeare.mit.edu/henryv/henryv.4.3.html

"I would not lose so great an honour As one man more, methinks, would share from me"

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From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date: 11/10/2010 04:27 PM
Subject: Re: Is TPM's Linux vs. IBM i pricing comparison valid?
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From: Bryce Martin
I think the intangible costs that are missing is the key.

People who make purchase decisions have a hard time weighing intangibles.
Surely there must be some way to make them tangible. A number of studies

indicate that IBM i requires fewer people to administer. People are
tangible.
Maybe we need to keep reminding people to add people into the equation.

The efficiency of the integrated OS/DB gets minimized way too much.

It seems that DB efficiency would show up in benchmarks. Do they?

-Nathan