Re: POWER6 Pricing for Small Businesses vs. System x / SBS Pricing -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: POWER6 Pricing for Small Businesses vs. System x / SBS Pricing
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 09:08:15 -0500
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Lukas Beeler wrote:

Hi,

I've been rambling about the prices of the new POWER6 machines in
other threads, without having definite POWER6 before me.

I find this very interesting. Basically, if the disks and memory were priced competitively, the i would be cheaper. Of course, that insane 5K maintenance is a pain, but that's a different issue.

As for software, I really don't think you can do proper systems development with VS Express. Someone else can chime in. If not, add another 6-7K for VS Professional. Then you have 25K vs 12K. Is i5/OS worth twice Windows? You have to decide that for yourself.

Joe

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Follow-Ups:

Re: POWER6 Pricing for Small Businesses vs. System x / SBS Pricing , Lukas Beeler
RE: POWER6 Pricing for Small Businesses vs. System x / SBS Pricing , Walden H. Leverich

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