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IBM recently announced their latest quarterly results with what looked like impressive growth for their P-Series systems (29%). What they made sure they weren’t too overt about was that this growth was for "converged System P". See, a few month ago, IBM decided to combine their I-Series (AS/400) with their P-Series systems. So now, this seemingly high growth is actually due to the fact that they add the count for all those systems that used to be i-Series and add them to P-Series to make it look like they have really high growth. Cute marketing stunt. Just wanted to make sure the facts were a tad more visible to you than IBM wanted you to see.

 

Posted 07-30-2008 5:18 PM by Martin Fink
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Richard Buckle wrote re: Convergence
on 10-07-2008 8:10 PM

More talk coming from customers on this convergence issue - do you think that System i could disappear entirely and only be supported via virtualization or migration. Is this likely? Is IBM trying to prepare us for this development?

Also, in the most recent InformationWeek magazine that i have (Sept 29, 2008 - there is an advertisement placed by IBM (pages 36 - 37) that says, and I quote:

"And with IBM PowerVM virtualization technology, you can consolidate workloads from twelve single-application 16-core HP Integrity rx7640 systems onto two 16-core Power 570 systems, for up to 18% higher performance and reduced energy requirements of up to 44%."

Yes, I know, the above looks like a sentence only I would try and get away with - but is this anywhere near the truth and how will HP be responding?

Cheers,

Richard

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