On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote:
> Em Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:06:25 +0800, debia escreveu: > > > Now, 250 Mhz isn't a lot more than 200 Mhz. Sure its disk is faster, and > > its a more-nicely specced machine, but it still has basically the same > > CPU as is in my six-year-old Powermac. about the same age as my Pentium > > II-233 system. > > The CPU is the least relevant part in a server nowadays. This is one of > the reasons why x86 is actually a bad choice for a server: it dedicate > design and operation resources to the wrong part of the system. This is a workstation. > > > > What's special about this IBM kit to justify its price? > > Some words: support, reliability, OSs and thoroughput. > > The Apples can't run AIX, GNU/Linux is all but unsupported, and IBM has been talking for some time about discontinuing AIX. It has done so on some platforms (IA32, S/390). > don't have the same bus bandwidth between processor(s), memory and This is a workstation with one processor. True, it has 1 Mbyte of L2 cache. > storage. Apple can't give the same level of support with the same global > reach, both for lack of competence and of structure. > > If someone else would produce a system with similar reliability and > thoroughput, running AIX and GNU/Linux and having worldwide > production-level support, then sure IBM would have to lower prices. Given > that that competence and structure isn't born in a day, not likely. But > IBM itself is fostering that with what remained of the POP initiative, > that is to say the Genesi Pegasos and the Eyetech AmigaOne. > > > -- Cheers John Summerfield Please, no off-list mail at all at all. This address accepts mail only from Debian addresses.
