Help me Justify iSeries

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Ron, on the i5 for Disaster Recovery, go back to your business partner and 
get them to configure a High Availability box.  IBM has some fairly decent 
discounts if the box is HA only. 

Am sending you two documents in an email to you directly.

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Help me Justify iSeries


My boss has the impression that running on the iSeries/AS400 is more 
costly than a Wintel platform with something like Oracle or SQL Server.

I'm a staunch supporter of the iSeries, however, my boss who came from a 
Microsoft environment seems to think its so much more expensive to stay on 


the iSeries due to hardware and software costs. How can I convince him 
that this where our business needs to be? Or, has the time come to give up 


the fight?

BTW: the scale-tipping factor was the high cost of a backup machine for 
D-R purposes. We're looking at about $20K to buy a new low-end 520 with 
V5R3 and enough DASD to put in another location as a hot-site. The 
production machine is an Enterprise Class 520 that we purchased in Sept of 


last year. The total cost including all of our software licenses was 
around $200K.  I hate to say it, but I think he may be right. I agree that 


iSeries is a stable and secure platfor that is highly capable of running 
our business, but unfortunately, they're only looking at the bottom line.


Thanks,

Ron Adams