RE: POWER6 now or later?

["Lukas Beeler" <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you need to manage Windows desktops, a System i doesn't help much ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 2:57 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: POWER6 now or later?

> From: Lukas Beeler
>
> Windows can also be licensed on a per Socket (A quad core, dual core,
> single core cpu all count as "1") basis, by using the Datacenter
> Edition.
>
> Microsoft has a nice calculator which shows which way is the cheapest:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/calculator
> .mspx

Just for a giggle, I did a little cluster of 10 servers.  Standard
Edition
was $8K a year!  Enterprise and Datacenter were nearly $25K!

I know this is a tough question and depends on a lot of things, but how
big
of a System i do you need to replace 10 Windows servers?  What's the
annual
maintenance on that puppy?

Joe