Re: DASD

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My opinion:

For the same reason that memory, NIC's, and everything else on an AS/400
costs you 10x what the same hardware is worth on Intel - because the market
will bear it. Once upon a time ago, people justified the increased hardware
prices due to the fact that the OS was included.  Then IBM introduced
Software Subscription, which was supposed to "unload" the cost of software
development from the hardware itself. Well, I've been paying through the
nose for software subscription since it was introduced, and yet I _still_
have to pay the same 10x premium for the hardware.


Flame away.....

John Taylor
Canada


----- Original Message -----
From: <Lawrence_Tuttle@eogresources.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 08:23
Subject: Re: DASD


>
> The OS is software.  My question is what makes the hardware of the DASD
> worth so much more.  I am
>  trying to justify an upgrade to e-series AS/400.  One of the main beefs
my
> IT manager has is the huge difference in
> cost.   It irks him so much that he is considering moving all the DB2
files
> to Oracle in spite of the millions of lines of legacy
> code we have on the 400.   I need a better answer than it works better.
>
>
>
>
>
>                     "Jim Franz"
>                     <jfranz@triad.rr.        To:
<RPG400-L@midrange.com>
>                     com>                     cc:
>                     Sent by:                 Subject:     Re: DASD
>                     owner-rpg400-l@mi
>                     drange.com
>
>
>                     01/18/2001 08:14
>                     PM
>                     Please respond to
>                     RPG400-L
>
>
>
>
>
> > Can someone tell my why DASD is so expensive on the AS/400 vs Intel?
> >
> It works better than any other drives I've seen in any data center. Helps
> to
> have an OS that works better than any other, to run the drives. I thank
> God (and Rochester-IBM) the 400 doesn't run with the reliability of pc
> hardware.
> imho-jim
>
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