Re: Personal Deskside System i for developers

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

A smaller system works well for RPG development - I wonder how well it
would work if doing things like Java programming and deploying/testing
in WAS.

On 9/7/07, CRPence <crp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>    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
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> employer
>
> albartell wrote:
> > The 515 is 2% lease.  I found this out the hard way.  Had a 515 all
> > configured and was about ready to send it to IBM lease personnel and
> > somebody told me it was 2%.  Note that the lesser 520 is at 1%.
> >
> > Note also that to get the horsepower out of the 515 you would have to most
> > likely double (maybe triple) the HD's and memory (per an email my IBM rep
> > sent me).
> >
> > Still not a bad deal even if you double the lease price given the amount of
> > horsepower and what not.
>
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