Re: Power7 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Power7
From: Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:14:54 +0100
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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 23:55, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't know any designer who would configure such a box
to run IBM i and then wonder why it doesn't perform.

Price, price, price, price! Going to 6 arms and with the RAID
controller adds 10k to the price tag.

Sure we all like the
bling bling but that just isn't why we purchase a system to run payroll!

Customers also don't see why they would need to pay 30k$ to get a
machine that runs decently.

It appears to me that you don't care about pricing, probably because
you don't have to deal with smaller customers. That's okay. But please
realize that not everyone is a 10'000 people enterprise out there that
likes throwing several millions into a single server.

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