Re: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86 announcement?

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 29, 2008 4:32 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You may have some points about a SAN but that still doesn't help determine
> the market for i5/os on a blade


here is the pricing:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/js22e/799861xai.html

a 4 core JS22 blade + chassis that runs AIX has a hardware price of   $6129
( js22 blade ) + $4234 ( chassis )

the same JS22 blade + chassis tha runs i5/os is hardware priced at $9457 (
js22 blade + Fiber and SAS expansion cards ) + $4234 ( chassis )

for each core ( guessing ) in the 4 core blade that is running i5/OS you pay
$15K for the i5/OS license.  For Linux you pay approx $1K.

then for each group of 10 users the price is $2500.  Up to max of 40 users.
No user count on a Linux system.

So for a 40 user system, running 1 power 6 core, without dasd, the price is
$40K.

the JS22 blade might be targeted for web based apps where there likely is no
max on the users.  But you are still paying a $15K premium per core for each
i5/OS activation. Why run your Java or EGL web apps on premium priced i5/OS
when the same code can run on Linux or AIX?