Re: The real skinny

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike wrote:
> Back to the topic, so you are saying you can buy (at list) an iSeries server
> for $2500? Where do you see that? The cheapest thing I see is much more than
> that.
>   
Sorry Mike, when I said: "GUI./ILE development environment for $2600" I 
was talking about WDS and RDi.  That's as compared to Visual Studio 
Professional for $1200.  And I suspect that the next release of System i 
hardware will probably include an express version with i5/OS and 
discounted tools for well under $10K, hence my "four figures" comment.  
Actually, I hope it will be closer to $5K, and I don't think that's 
unreasonable based on the fact that there already exists an express 
version of the model 515 for $8K.

At that point, an i5/OS server will indeed be competitive with a 
comparable Windows server, which today runs about $3000 after OS 
licensing and tools, and quite a bit more if you get hardware RAID and a 
quality tape drive.  And that doesn't even include the desktop OS and 
tools licenses.

Joe