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Mike ... extremely interesting. Thanks for this. I have the impression that if
IBM's marketing was as good as it's hardware and it's pricing, that Microsoft
would have a much steeper hill to climb.
Peace,
Milt Habeck
www.unpath.com
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Actually there were a whole bunch of quotes in the article....I just about
popped a vein......
Just so everyone knows we went through a SAP feasibility study here just
recently...thankfully it has been delayed because we can't afford
it........
1.) Our parent company mandated Windows servers and SQL server as the
standard - they call it a business requirement (I still laugh over that
crap....)
2.) I now know that the iSeries makes a phenomenal SAP server - anyone
that suggest otherwise does not know what they are talking about....
3.) We priced a large hardware configuration - iSeries was slightly more
expensive than an xSeries implementation - less than 2% (remember what you
get with your hardware.........ahem.....just a database.....).
4.) We priced a hardware, maintenance, software, and it's maintenance.
The iSeries was slightly less expensive.....approximately 5%.
5.) When we included personnel - the iSeries was cheaper by over $750,000
per year. That's right, significantly cheaper......
so..............
iSeries can't run SAP - bull
iSeries can't run SAP well - bull
iSeries isn't strategic to SAP - bull
iSeries isn't growing with SAP - bull (actually by % it is the fastest
growing platform)
back to the gist of the MS comments in the article....
iSeries hardware is more expensive - sometimes yes, sometimes no - in our
case it really wasn't....
iSeries is more expensive - bull - in our case it was by far the most
affordable platform to run......
Customers buy Wintel platforms to save money - sometimes yes and sometime
no.....in our case it would have cost us a small fortune........
Chuck Lewis
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And quote of the century:
"Windows is fine. It's not a software issue,"
Chuck
Hmmmm, I wonder if there will be any response from
IBM.........................?
Microsoft targets IBM midrange server customers - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041214/152/f8j01.html
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