Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Bryce Martin
> you would really need to only get the cost of licensing 
> brought down to make this more feasible.


Well, the cost of IBM software licensing is a consideration, but when it's 
amortized over the life of a server, it's probably not that much of a 
consideration, especially when you compare it to the cost of a system 
administrator's time.  An IBM i license on a model 720 is $2,245 per core. 
 Dividing that between 30-40 partitions would make it pretty cheap per 
partition. Amortizing that across 5 years seems pretty economical too.  I 
understand that a company like IBM can achieve greater economies of scale, but 
it might work for a small shop to get into cloud services too.

-Nathan