Re: AIX - i5/OS feature comparison was the notorious Steve's soapbox

["Mike Cunningham" <MCUNNING@xxxxxxx>]

Not an expert on AIX and I don't even know what AIX with DB2 (and an
HTTP Server and DNS server and Firewall and etc, etc etc) would cost
compared to OS/400. But one reason I like OS/400 is that I have never
(repeat never) been forced to re-code or even recompile one of my apps
or unload and reload DB2 due to an OS/DB2 upgrade. Yes, CISC to RISC
required a recompile (not really but trying to be generic) but I didn't
need to do that, the upgrade did it for me. I also know that I don't
spend very much time babysitting DB2/400 and "tuning" it to make it run
better that way I have heard non-OS/400 shops needing to do (not all of
them were DB2 shops). 

> > > stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx 9/7/2006 10:10 AM >>>
On 9/7/06, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think people should actually stop buying it
> > until IBM sells it for the same price as the p5.
>
> Steve, the power of the i5 isn't in the hardware, it's in the OS,
you
> know that! I'll make you a deal, IBM can sell the i5 and p5 at the
same
> price, sans-OS. You can then add a couple thousand for AIX or a few
10
> to 100-thousand for OS/400, that's about a fair price differential
based
> on what the OSs can do. Would that make you happier? <G>

Are we really saying the i5/OS is better than AIX - Linux? My
conclusion up front, so people dont get totally rabid, is on the whole
they are equal. As in IBM should sell i5/OS the way it sells AIX - as
a low charge item that is a vehicle for selling p5 hardware and user
based DB2 licenses.

DB2 on AIX can handle XML. i5/OS cant.

IT Jungle estimates that i5/OS gets 40% fewer transactions per minute
out of the same unit of hardware.

We all should be coding in portable SQL procedures. That accepted,
what the heck is the difference between AIX and i5/OS? Your AIX DB2
procedure code will run a lot faster so your programmer can spend more
time coding for the user vs deciding whether to use an MCT, an EVI or
a CTE.

Sure we have green screen and DDS but IBM itself is shutting that
stuff down. What is so good about i5/OS that you would recommend a
company pay $40,000 per core to use it?

-Steve