RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have always envisioned the iSeries to be a better manager of CPU cycles
and memory.  So my question is this: Are CPU cycles on the iSeries side the
same as on the Windows side?  What I mean by that is I would imagine that
OS/400 is more optimally written to handle enterprise level needs and if one
was to throw the same at a Windows machine it would not compare.  On the
same note we should look at what we are getting per processing cycle (kinda
going back to an earlier post of mine).  With the iSeries we can some pretty
solid job logs and error tracking capabilities.  All that comes at a cost,
but in the end is a benefit that must be factored in when saying this Xeon
proc is much faster and cheap than the iSeries equivalent.  I would have to
believe that part of the reason the iSeries is so expensive on the hardware
side is because they are trying to recoup costs from operating system
development and DB development - etc.

Thoughts?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:19 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

> Just trying to add some reality into the mix.

Fair enough, and I'd agree with your pricing (roughly), however, I think the
point was, those two machines, while costing the same, aren't even close in
processing power. A 8-way Xeon w/8Gig will blow the doors off that System i
spec. 

Are there cheaper System i's, yes. And there are cheaper Dells too. 2
Quad-code Xeons is a _lot_ of processing power!

Besides, let's face it, the spec is silly anyway. If you've got an 8-way
machine you're not loading it w/4 146Gig 15K drives and SQL Server, you'd be
so disk-bound it wouldn't be funny.

-Walden

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