Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.

I believe for web .... in other words, if you are running HTTP, IBM is
proposing a $5,000 flat fee. They realize they can't count users. You can read
the announcement materials, but I recall that is the plan they spoke about.

For those interested, there is a nice short announcement video from iSociety at
www.systemiportal.com, and there are other details posted at www.isociety.org.


Wayne Madden




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CPW is not the same as CPU speed.

Actually, I think the correlation between CPW and CPU is very strong. A couple
years ago IBM began publishing two (2) metrics for evaluating system
performance. One was CPW. The other was CIW (an acronym for Compute Intensive
Workload). There was a very strong correlation between the two.

With regards to user based pricing, which seems like a good idea to me, how
does the OS define a user? Client Access connections are pretty strait
forward, and IBM has been monitoring Client Access Licenses for years. But
when a user is accessing the HTTP Server, how is that counted?

Nathan M. Andelin



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Subject: RE: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.

I am curious where are you getting the 8000+ CPW (commercial processing
workload) rating for a PC? CPW is not the same as CPU speed. I do know
my model 520 with 3,800 CPW rating running lots of concurrent services
and applications will outperform a quad-core PC server running just MS
SQL Server. We have an application that runs on a PC and makes
connections to both DB2 and MSSQL and reads data from both and the 520
responds quicker that the PC server.