Re: Help me Justify iSeries I5????

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm about 6 months behind on this, but as of 6 months ago, that's a
definite YES.  If you're running AIXL ONLY, you're better off, and
probably cheaper, to use a pSeries box.

Double check current pricing and configs as things may have changed
recently.

Don in DC

On Fri, 27 May 2005 rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Good for you.  But both is different than AIX only on an i5.  IBM would
> probably (and rightly so) suggest a p5 instead of an i5 if all you were
> running was AIX.
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> Our current P5 running AIX 5.3 will be removed from service in about 18
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> On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:39:40 -0500, rob wrote
> > No.  There's i5/os and i5 the machine.
> > Right - you don't buy i5/os and run it on different hardware.
> > But, you can buy i5 hardware and not run i5/os on it.  You could run
> > Linux or Aix on it.  However, if anyone hears of someone who bought
> > an i5 and didn't run any i5/os let me know.  Although I did hear of
> > someone who had no i5 history who bought one and stuffed it full of
> > IXS cards as their SAN device.
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> > Isn't i5 the OS and iSeries the machine?
> > Can you buy i5 and run it on some other machine?
> > Don't you buy <char>Series machines?
> >   buy an i5 at a deeply discounted price providing that you sign the
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> >   machine is for DR purposes only" form.  Talk to your software
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