Re: POWER6 now or later?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only other issue I can imagine is for the person/firm that wants to 
do and understand it all, including tape, back-ups, upgrades, and all of 
the other non-programming stuff.  For many of us here that seems 
irrelevant but following Joe's problems of software licensing, I can 
easily see why just having a space on some one else's hardware is of 
little real worth.

Larry Bolhuis 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.
>
> - Larry
>
> Booth Martin wrote:
>   
> > I am still not sure I understand the business case for a desktop unit.  
> > Portability, for marketing I suppose?  But after that very small need, 
> > then what?  Besides, if the goal is portability then why not a laptop?
> >
> > If the battle is for price alone, then other solutions seem 
> > quicker/easier/more responsive?
> >
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