Re: ITJungle report on i5 pricing and marketing was: More COMMON

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Timothy Prickett Morgan estimates on TCP-C price / performance don't square 
with:

http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp

Which reports TPM costs in the $0.98 to $1.81 for single CPU Wintel servers.  
It's not clear how Timothy Morgan came up with the lower estimates of $0.19 to 
$0.62.

Another problem with the comparison of single CPU Wintel servers with single 
CPU iSeries is that in real-world settings Wintel has a hard time managing 
complex workloads on a single server.  It would make more sense to compare a 
single model 520 with a cluster of 3-4 Wintel servers.

Nathan.


----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:09:40 AM
Subject: ITJungle report on i5 pricing and marketing was: More COMMON

On 9/13/06, Holden Tommy <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  <snip>No mention
> of price cuts or an end to the practice of gearing down the system.
> </snip>
>
> You keep on mentioning this...again I have to ask...where's the numbers?
> I have yet to see any proof (definitive or circumstantial to support the
> claim).  Anyone else notice no type of documentation or supporting
> information that IBM is "gearing down" anything??

Tommy, read this recent report by ITJungle. It rips IBM for over
charging for the system.  The article uses the "geared down" term to
describe the i520 systems that most i5 customers are buying.

http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh080706-story01.html

"...As I have said for many years, I think IBM's high prices for
configured machines--with or without 5250 support--are limiting the
appeal of the System i5 among the small and medium businesses that are
the bread and butter of this OS/400 ecosystem. ..."

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