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Lets say Moore's Law is still in effect, which seems to still be the case.
What is the effect of a 50% drop in revenue per transistor, every 18
months, over a couple of decades? Doesn't there have to be a point
where increasing sales can no longer be sustained?
I don't understand? Why would a cheaper manufacturing cost of transistors
slow iSeries sales? If anything, if it was cheaper to manufacture IBM
should be able to sell more units at a reduced cost by passing the savings
on to the customer. Personally, I think what has killed sales is the
perception of the platform being a dinosaur, and IBM's constant rebranding
of things to the point that even if the customer wanted to jump onboard he
doesn't even know where to start.
I love the 400, it's a good, solid, dependable platform and writing RPG is
a breeze. Interfacing to the non-IBM world is a little tricky, but
doable. I do my part, I tell anyone who asks what I do that I work on the
best platform in the world - unfortunately, 90% of them have no idea what
the AS/400/iSeries/System i is. I think it's about time for IBM to do
their part and sell, sell, sell the damn platform until the next time
someone asks me what I do, and I say I program on the iSeries, that person
tells me how he's heard so much good buzz about it that I must be a lucky
man indeed! =)
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