Planet i

I wrote a short note about IBM increasing the cost of SWMA (Software Maintenance Agreement) for IBM i.  Now look at the cost of the Hardware and more importantly disk storage.  Compare that to Intel based hardware and DASD for those boxes.  You can buy 1 Terabyte Drives for Wintel machines for as little as $75 retail at Best Buy.  You will pay much less through commercial vendors.  These same drives cost you thousands for your IBM i based Power machine.

See:  http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh030413-story01.html

Does your company really need an IBM Power System?  Would you be much better off looking a cloud computing and pay for what you actually use?

Read the original at Bob Cancilla on IBM i.