RE: Hardware Comparison between SUN E6900 and IBM P570

Posted in 2006

Chafik, Basim — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:39:15 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I think IBM have the policy to loan Server if they see a potential of a big sale. Even if they don lend you one, they have state of the art LABs for their partners and customer to test and benchmark their application. We used their LAB in Boston to benchmark one of our applications. Basim Chafik Senior Systems Analyst IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert (CATE) 1.800.688.4895 basim.chafik@plx.com plexus (Division of BancTec) -----Original Message----- From: bozon [mailto:curtis@crowson1.com] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:00 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Hardware Comparison between SUN E6900 and IBM P570 OTO Said: > Would you buy a car without a test drive? I had a friend that used this line in college with his dates. It never seemed to work for him. Maybe I'll have better luck with IBM and SUN than he had with his dates. OTO Said: > I don't know whether it's a bad thing that hardware vendors don't have > dozens of state-of-the-art boxes lying around for the whims of their > erratic customers. People who actually bought the tin would wind up > contributing to the costs of the demo fleet, which would make us all unhappy. I think the actual cost of the hardware is pennies on the dollar for what they are selling it for. That doesn't mean they are ripping us off, just think about all of the fixed costs involved in creating a server. Even if the box had only $0.10 of parts if the fixed costs totaled a $100 million then they would have to sell 1,000 at $100,010 to break even*. So, they actually might be willing to loan us some machines to play with since we are going to buy more than 1 and it only takes $0.10 to make one of them ;-). After, all once they have committed all of those fixed costs to the servers they are really desperate to sell them. * break even price = fix cost / ( num units - variable cost ) _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list