Reader Feedback on Let’s Take Another Stab at Power7 Blade Bang for the Buck
May 17, 2010 Hey, TPM
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Your untangling of the obscured IBM pricing is depressing. I listened carefully to IBM at COMMON, and asked a few questions myself. They are 100 percent committed to the proposition that the i/OS eliminates need for as many IT personnel and that you will pay them instead of the personnel. It is built into everything they do and say, with code word “simplified” (as in their pricing–not). It is a serious mistake they will take the AS/400 down with until they change their ways, which will assuredly be too late. I can’t imagine a person other than those who have grown to love the AS/400 and put up with all the name changes and other marketing nonsense buying into that particular sales pitch. But that’s their sales pitch, and we will live or die by it. They may believe it, but they will have a hard time converting new followers to pay IBM beaucoup for Power IBM i (or whatever their strange name of the day is) and sort of run on autopilot with some kind of link to IBM to turn on and off cores and automanage itself, paying IBM all the way. It’s like an IBM marketing wet dream. Of course, there’s some truth to it, but not to the extent of anyone believing IBM to pay extreme premiums for it. But that’s what IBM’s Total Cost ROI, blah, blah, blah, is all about, simply selling hope to C-level execs that they won’t need as many of those inscrutable IT people. That is just so sad, when actually as I pointed out to them if OS/400 were written today by a Linux type group it would be considered revolutionary. Those inscrutable IT types would love it, and for the cost effectiveness, power, and security so would the C-level execs even if they don’t know what an object-based OS or single level storage was. Simplified. Pay us big bucks instead of big bucks scruffy IT people. That’s what IBM is selling. Very sad. –Ralph RELATED STORIES Let’s Take Another Stab at Power7 Blade Bang for the Buck Power7 Blades: The i/DB2 Combo Versus AIX/Oracle Stacking Up New Power7 Against Power6/6+ Blades IBM’s Power7 Blades Pack a CPW Punch IBM Peddles Baby BladeCenter PS700 Express Blade Box IBM Officially Announces i/OS 7.1 IBM Holds i 6.1 Prices Steady, Slashes Application Server Fees i 7.1 Due April 14, with Open Access for RPG, Other Goodies The Power7 Systems Sales Pitch i/OS Gets Short Sheeted with Power7 Thread Counts The System iWant, 2010 Edition: Clustered Boxes IBM Fired Up About Power7-Based Smarter Systems A Little Insight Into the Rest of the Power7 Lineup Power7: Yields Are Good, Midrange Systems A Go The Power7 Rollout Begins In The Middle The System iWant, 2010 Edition: Blade and Cookie Sheet Boxes The System iWant, 2010 Edition: Entry Boxes The System iWant, 2010 Edition: Midrange Boxes IBM Preps Power7 Launch For February Looks Like i 7.1 Is Coming In April The System iWant, 2010 Edition: Big Boxes Power Systems i: The Word From On High Power Systems i: The Windows Conundrum Power Systems i: Thinking Inside the Box Rolling Thunder Rollout for Power7 Processors Next Year IBM Rolls Up an i 6.1.1 Dot Release The Curtain Rises a Bit on the Next i OS, Due in 2010 Start Planning for Power7 Iron Now IBM to Reveal Power7 Secrets at Hot Chips Power 7: Lots of Cores, Lots of Threads
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