RE: Microsoft targets IBM midrange server customers

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That is VERY interesting information Mike - thanks so much for letting us
know.

So did the company, in deciding to delay, at least drop the Windows choice
in favor of iSeries in light of this information ? Or were the blindly
insisting on that in SPITE of this information and that is what they can't
afford ?

Chuck

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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........