Re: Geared Down, Low Cost Power IBM i Box Rumored - How Low Can You Go? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Geared Down, Low Cost Power IBM i Box Rumored - How Low Can You Go?
From: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:04:06 -0500
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Is it the cost of the hardware that's holding people back?
Is it the cost of paying for 8 cores when you'd like to try to get down to
4 or even 1?
Or are they trying to solve the wrong problem and it's really migrating
software to it? For example the classic example of out of support Infor.
Gee I can buy a machine for (totally made up number) $3k but it will only
cost me $1,675,000 to put my ERP on it.
A new machine might only run 7.3. How big of a show stopper would this
be?
Dollars to doughnuts it would sure enough require a new TR and you know
that is out of the realm of possibility for 7.1. That would leave 7.3 and
maybe 7.2.

Rob Berendt

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