RE: Geared Down, Low Cost Power IBM i Box Rumored - How Low Can You Go?

IBM is currently forcing customers to buy more hardware than they need. Adding new options on the lower end seems reasonable to me.



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From: Rob Berendt [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: Re: Geared Down, Low Cost Power IBM i Box Rumored - How Low Can You Go?

Is it the cost of the hardware that's holding people back?
Is it the cost of paying for 8 cores when you'd like to try to get down to
4 or even 1?
Or are they trying to solve the wrong problem and it's really migrating software to it? For example the classic example of out of support Infor.
Gee I can buy a machine for (totally made up number) $3k but it will only cost me $1,675,000 to put my ERP on it.
A new machine might only run 7.3. How big of a show stopper would this be?
Dollars to doughnuts it would sure enough require a new TR and you know that is out of the realm of possibility for 7.1. That would leave 7.3 and maybe 7.2.


Rob Berendt
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