I would like to think I had something to do with this. I think a lot of myself, I really do. I pulled aside every IBM’er I could get my hands on and mentioned that I thought the 40 user cap was a shoot yourself in the foot move and would be used against them by the likes of DELL and SUN. I will spare you the exact quote from the Sun rep but they all had that comment in their hip pocket before IBM had a chance to explain it away.
I think this was a very smart move on IBM’s part and puts that server in contention to play with the big boys as a little guy price. Everyone now has no excuse to not get on the System i!
I could see 515s or 525s in a JDE environment doing the work of Logic Servers. That would work out really good for me.
July 16th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Now if they only would make it expandable and remove the hardware limitations. Essentially, combine the 525 and the 515, start out at 5 users and lower the per user cost to say 50 bucks…..