Re: Personal Deskside System i for developers

[CRPence <crp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  I do not own one... yet.  But...
  To make the system into a development system should not require such 
upgrades.?  Maybe if also intended to be used as some kind of limited 
benchmark, performance, acceptance test, or proof of concept system? 
The system has full CPU, which in my experience is what compilers use 
most.  That is, the compilers are not usually resource intensive for 
either disk or memory.  So although the limits on the capable CPW rating 
due to limitations on features other than CPU could play a role in some 
cases, I expect that some real life experience may find some variations 
on the proposed setup by the OP to be quite acceptable.  I would always 
get as much memory as /affordable/; that would be my preferred variation 
on the originally described setup.

  And with the licensing change to concurrent users, with two twelve 
hour or three eight hour divisions of a day, the five users could enable 
cost sharing across closer to ten or fifteen people.  Of course getting 
ten versus five people, across varied limited or fixed hours, to get the 
cost back down, seems already to complicate the original case -- but 
that did not include ongoing maintenance charges which start ?3 months? in?

  Maybe somebody has an actual experience they will share, about their 
use of such a system only for development.  Maybe the lease too.

Regards, Chuck