Re: Also Leaving MidRange Equipment

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

What changes that are new applications.  Like:
- WAS
- TSM
- Domino
- etc
There's money to be made in consulting and services by setting up those 
applications.  I would think that the profit potential differences for 
services between setting up these new applications on i5's versus server 
farms is a rather small percentage of the total money to be had for 
setting up the application in the first place.  I think what kills the 
i5's more are the facts that IBM:
- Supplies the consultants setting up these type of applications with all 
the NT or Linux boxes they want, and make them beg and grovel for an i5
- Either stops enhancing the product for the i5 (like TSM) or has the i5 
version come out months or years later than the other platforms.  And 
minus some features.  Like, guess which platform will be one of the last, 
if ever, to support the DB2 part of Lotus R7?  Totally freaking ludicrous!

Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Yup...no arguments there...

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Steve Landess wrote:

> It's really quite simple, Don.
>
> As I have said at least five times before in this forum, IBM derives a
> majority of their revenue today from SERVICES, not hardware or software
> sales.  The IBM midrange platform is a mature platform with mature
> applications that don't require much in the form of consulting services.
>

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