Re: POWER6 now or later?

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/6/07, Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Booth,
>
> I believe you are on track. The 'Huggable Luggable' was great for demo's
> and shows and such but that's a small market. With all the bandwidth
> available today that market is satisfied by remote access. For the
> developers there is some potential gain in this but a small market once
> more. This market too will largely be swallowed up with V6R1 as it can
> host virtual i5/OS partitions. So each developer who wants one can have
> a partition of their own for 1/10th of a processor and a couple GB of
> memory and some disk space. No way that's gonna be more expensive than
> an entire system unit plus dasd plus tape and it's own copy of i5/OS
> with maintenance and SWMA. The promised Blade implementation may also
> address this space as well.
>
> Would IBM like to be able to sell you this desktop developer system? I'm
> positive they would! Is there a business case for building it? I don't
> think so.

they sell the p5 at a profit. there is a business case for that. Then
for every i5/os user that runs on the p5, IBM gets $250.  Also a
common sense business case. No need to administer a developer program
when programmers can purchase marketpriced systems. For IBM to
increase profits in this setting it has to invest in i5/OS
improvements in order to increase the number of users paying to use
it.

-Steve