Re: NT Costs vs. AS/400

[MWalter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

We recently did a comparison of NT/W2k vs. iSeries upgrade on which to run
Domino/Notes. Being that the costs were so comparable and our being
primarily an iSeries shop, the choice was easily made. If you have NT
experience in you organization, your decision may be a little more
involved. I think both platforms have their merit.

As far as the costs, the last NT server we purchased; An HP LH3, (2) 450
mhz Xeon Processors 27 GB of RAID protected Disk, 1GB ram w/ Win NT and SQL
Server, if memory serves me (and often it doesn't)  was right around 20k.
This was a few years ago.

My 2 cents.



Mark Walter
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Hanover Wire Cloth a div of CCX, Inc.
mwalter@hanoverwire.com
http://www.hanoverwire.com
717.637.3795 Ext.3040


                                                                                
                                            
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I was always under the impression that NT boxes were very  inexpensive
compared to AS/400. Today I was quoted a minimum of 25K for an NT box to
serve as our web server, utilizing AS/400 data. This makes the upgrade from
a 620 to an 820 much more attractive. Is this price correct for NT. Also,
the vendor said that it would be hard to get an NT box now, that Microsoft
was pushing the Windows 2K.







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