Re: Prometheus

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/31/06, Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I will cut to the conclusion and say the answer is to have i5/os as a
> > supported OS on the p5 and do away with i5 hardware models, i5 only
> > business partners, a lot of i5 marketing. <snip>
> To steal a line from Red October "You arrogant ass, you've killed US!"

or South Park ...  those bastards, they killed i5 hardware!!!

> That is, kill all your i5 partners and you've killed the System i. Many
> of us (yes I am one of them) don't do p for a reason: we believe in i.

... and i5/OS does not run on p5.

> Better instead to put more arrows in our quiver. With the hardware
> essentially identical already why not let us sell more models?
>
> > There are not many published numbers to know for sure, but I dont
> > agree the p5 is a low profit item for IBM.  The $4000 for the lowest
> > price p5 is still $4000. AIX, Linux and software subscription are in
> > the $1000 range. DB2 brings in a good profit at $724 for the first
> > user, $124 for additional users or $4874 per processor. Double those
> > charges for DB2 on the enterprise ( bigger than 2 cores ) models.
> >
> Software monies go other places within IBM. $4000 for a small p cannot
> possibly make them significant margins and likely is a loss.

Cant make a profit on a $10K mix of hardware and software? i5 IBM is
looking more and more like General Motors. A lot of high cost legacy
interests looking to make it to retirement before the whole thing
implodes.

-Steve