RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

["Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No argument there and I will admit that the cost comparison was not just for 
the purposes of operating a web server.


On Wed, 3 May 2006 10:26:50 -0500, Joe Pluta wrote
> > From: Douglas W. Palme
> > 
> > Thanks Joe :)
> > 
> > I would most certainly agree that the comparison of per cycle cost of a i
> > series versus wintel is significantly higher on a purchase price basis.
> > 
> > I did a cost comparison about a year ago for a 520 that if you want, I
> > will
> > send it to you, I would need to remove some proprietary information 
first.
> > 
> > We compared the purchase price, support costs and ongoing maintenance
> > costs
> > and suprisingly the 520 over a 3 year period was approximately $3,000 
less
> > than a comparable Dell.
> 
> First, please feel free to send that to me.
> 
> Second, I'm not sure we're comparing apples to apples here.  For a pure
> web-serving machine, I would have a hard time spending over $3500.  And
> that's for the good stuff, not Dell.  I know, I've got a dual 3.2GHz 
> xSeries with 80GB of 15K RAID5 storage and 2GB of RAM.
> 
> Now, I realize you get a lot more with a System i (I'm sure you know 
> I'm a big proponent of TCO comparisons), but for the purposes of 
> this discussion, I don't NEED any of that.  I just need Linux or 
> FreeBSD and Apache, and I guarantee you won't be able to match the 
> performance of my little server with any 520 configuration, and 
> certainly not one priced comparably.
> 
> For low-end single-purpose servers, the System i still has a much higher
> price per cycle.
> 
> Joe
> 
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If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.