Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

Only experience.

We have 2 IBM i 570s primary and backup, 3 production 6.1 LPARs, 1 production V5R4 LPAR and 1 development/QA/Training LPAR.
3 admins, two full time and a backup, a part time DBA, approx 25-30 i developers and an operations staff of 9 (24/7-365).

We have 8 AIX, 40 Sun, and uncounted windows servers.
18 administrators, 7 DBAs, 80 developers and an operations staff of 28 (24/7-365)

Duane Christen


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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Schoen
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 4:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

Any facts to back up that assertion ? :-)

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date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:39:27 -0500
from: "Christen, Duane" <Duane.Christen@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

You'll spend nearly half a million on salaries just to keep your sprawl under control, not to mention feeding and cooling the hardware.

Duane Christen


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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 1:31 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

Den 11/10/10 19.37, Charles Wilt skrev:

And according to this, 64 is the most you can get:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh082310-story03.html
a special PRPQ will only let it span 64 cores and 256 threads.

"So a full 64-core system using the slow processors would cost you $1.43 million just for the base hardware chassis and the processors."

You can get a lot of commodity hardware for that amount of money for horizontal scaling....