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More user feedback on new System i boxes



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
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These longer, more detailed comments at the System i Network are even better than the previous post, in my humble opinion. In this installment, users wonder aloud about the 40-user cap with the 515 machine. Why? They ask. David Vasta over at iSeries Addict has the same question, and isn’t shy about his criticism:

Why would you make the fastest, and most reliable system, the i5 in a nice small affordable package and then put a limit on it? Why? Please someone with brains take over the i5 business unit at IBM and do something right for a change? In the last 20 years IBM has bumbled the i5 product line like a bunch of keystone cops. They get something right like the price and the size and then do something stupid like put a cap on the number of users.

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It’s nice to be quoted  |   Apr 25 2007   11:26AM GMT

[...] I have been getting a little more action latley with my comments about the new 515 system IBM put out a few weeks back. With COMMON right around the corner I am sure IBM is not going to be very happy to see me in person. I want to make it known I am not going to let this issue go away. I plan to ask everyone with an IBM affiliation the following questions: [...]


 

Chris Hird has a new Fan!  |   Apr 26 2007   11:42AM GMT

[...] This is the paragraph in the whole artilce that wraps it up and makes the most sense. I can take the last 17 years and do nothing with it if I want, or I can make some sense of it and Chris has done just this with this paragraph. Colleges all ready teach C and Java. I am going to a small community college in Northern Colordado called AIMs and they offer both. Would it not be really cool to have one of those 515s (without the stupid limit link1, link2 , link3) to compile my C on an run my Java on rather than Windows of Linux? [...]


 
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