Re: New iSeries Purchases ? "Family loyalty"; IBM's big mistake (IMHO)

[Chris Rehm <javadisciple@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, ideally CPW rates should directly correlate to the amount of work
you can get done, right? But MHz, well, you know the drill. It's a piece
of the puzzle.

Which brings us around to the desktop phenomenon of upgrading the OS and
discovering that brings down the "CPW" of the PC to a point where a
higher MHz processor needs to be installed. If this same sort of event
is what was driving new iSeries sales (or upgrades, rather) then that
would point to a lack of expanding market.

thomas@inorbit.com wrote:

>On Tue, 22 January 2002, Chris Rehm wrote:
>
>>But when a company upgrades to a new machine that has 2, 4, 8 or more
>>times the performance of the old one, my question would be: Did the
>>company's business volume grow by the same amount? Is the latest version
>>of the operating system so inefficient that the new computing power is
>>needed?
>>
>
>Interesting point. I wonder how this relates to the viability of a measurement 
>of CPW vs. something like Mhz?
>
>Tom Liotta
>

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