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

Steve, 

Think of the oil crisis we find ourselves in today.  Why do we accept $3 
and $4 gas ?

We're accepting because there's not much we can do to change the tide 
unless we don't want to drive cars. 

I personally don't want to walk to work and certainly don't want to ride 
my bike 22 miles along the freeway :-)

In the case of the iSeries, I don't agree with the higher cost of the 
iSeries in principal either. 

But am I going to stop using the iSeries because of  the costs ?

No, because it brings value to my business and other businesses as well. 

The p5 also has it's place as well as Wintel or Apple boxes. 

In fact we have several customers who have shops with i5, p5 and Wintel 
boxes all for different point applications. 

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 8
date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:31:54 -0400
from: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: AIX - i5/OS feature comparison was the notorious Steve's
                 soapbox

Why are GM and Ford such lousy companies?  Timothy Prickett Morgan at
ITJungle writes that IBM management has a quarter by quarter outlook
on things. I dont understand why the people on this list are so
accepting of the premium pricing of the system.  But whatever. I am
mostly curious to know how AIX and i5/OS compare against each other.

-Steve