http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/look-for-low-end-system-i-soon/ A Search400.com blog Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:55:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/look-for-low-end-system-i-soon/#comment-286 Gerald Gary Miller Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:05:04 +0000 http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/04/04/look-for-low-end-system-i-soon/#comment-286 At last. Although combined with IBM’s plans for taking certain elements out of WDSc Client Edition, it would seem they again want to kill the very machine they are trying to sell. The new Entry Level System i5 has been needed for some time. Theoretically (and logically) it should compete with Windows and Linux servers. At current hardware and software prices (not counting this new entry system) is cost-prohibitive for many small and medium businesses/shops. Again, the new entry model could not only get older AS/400 shops to a System i5, but more important, attract new (growth in the System i line) customers. The entry level priced very aggressively and with packaged software also aggressively/competitively priced, business moving to a System i5 would have a much better machine than a Windows server, with RPG-IV, Query/400, SQL, etc. One can produce a report against a database (after all a relational DB included with the OS) of business data very rapidly, not like some other databose products which have very poor reporting formats.
Hopefully, IBM will get it right this time…

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