Re: RDi upgrades, RDi-SOA availability in New Express Machine

And what I really like is that it includes RDi-SOA,

I like the fact that RDi-SOA is included, but if I have the correct
understanding they won't be able to use the machine to host web applications
unless you also purchase the other "unlimited web" user pricing which runs
$4k I believe. Is that correct?

I agree that IBM needs to make money, but they just put a big ol' roadblock
smack dab in the middle of their entry level solution which then raises the
price to almost $13k. Then people say "heck, I can get one heck of a nice
Lintel/Wintel server for $5k!".

I am still trying to find the huge value-add that application server type
Java apps have on the IBM i vs. other platforms being it runs within its own
JVM and isn't really using the full power of the IBM i operating system or
DB2 (though I am less sure on the DB2 standpoint).

Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'll be writing about this in more detail, but George announced
yesterday at OCEAN (from what I gather the original announcement was
last week) that both of the things they promised us in Raleigh are
indeed coming to pass. They're not perfect, but they're okay.

First, they have an upgrade policy. The upgrade from ADTS to RDi is
around $400, some 60% of the list price. Not free, but not full price.
I give it two and a half stars <grin>.

More important is the announcement of the Power 520 Express model. With
five users and a year of SWMA the machine is under $10K (actually more
like $8600). This includes a 4.2GHz POWER chip, 2GB of memory and two
73GB drives. Not a huge machine, by any means, but a machine that marks
a real entry-point vs. other platforms. And what I really like is that
it includes RDi-SOA, so now you have a complete end-to-end SMB solution
that allows you to write sophisticated web application with an RPG back
end and no Java, JavaScript or PHP required.

Very nice.

Joe
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