another good use for a desktop version would be that colleges could
actually justify the expense and might spark a bigger interest in teaching
the system and RPG programming which is good news for all System i
fans....
also i could actually afford to own a system!!!
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
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RE: POWER6 now or later?
From: Booth Martin
Help me a bit here, Joe. I am trying to visualize how I would use a
desktop System i. I have this hilarious mental image of twin-ax
spreading through the plant, all from my desk. So how would I use it?
One of the big complaints I hear is that nobody can afford a System i to
work on. With low-end machines under $10K now, I suspect a desktop would
be
closer to the $5K range making it available to just about anybody serious
about wanting to learn the machine.
I'm not a big rack guy myself, so I wouldn't mind a desktop or mini-tower
version of a System i in my own setup; my two System i servers take up a
lot
of room (and power and heat) in my network. I think a smaller form factor
System i would also be a great fit in distributed environments. I could
see
a System i in a Point of Sale configuration, for example: one per local
store, with a self-contained retail store application that tied via WAN to
a
central location.
Joe
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