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> From: jeff_carey@xxxxxxxxxx > > Say your company had several instances of JDE globally, mostly running on > AS/400's. Say further that during a global meeting it was stated that the > direction of the company was to move from the AS/400 and iSeries to Sun > Solaris. Well, you'd first want to focus on each platform's long-term strategy and viability. The last thing you want is to be the guy who selected the HP3000 as the future of the company. But that aside, your next bet is to identify the areas where the platforms differ significantly. According to Gartner, this tends to be in clustering and disaster tolerance/recovery. Sun receives very low marks in both those categories. It also tends to do poorly in server management categories. Finally, support and corporate viability are lacking. In fact, the only place Sun wins right now is "Market Momentum", which is purely a matter of IBM not spending any money on getting mindshare for the iSeries. If IBM marketed the iSeries the way they do the p- and x- boxes, the iSeries would be the hands down winner, especially for SMBs. Oh, the information I quoted in from Gartner. Not sure how long it will be available for free, but the page is here: http://mediaproducts.gartner.com/reprints/hp/117161.html Everybody in the iSeries world should have a copy of this report to show management. Joe
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