Joe,
We run ASK on a 937LX with a 22Gb hard drive and 480 Mb of memory.  We do
about 1500 invoice lines a month, the other company does about twice as
many (and we both do all the manufacturing associated with the invoicing).
Our system with just us on it is fine but I know we would have to upgrade
to triple the volume of transactions.


Here is the email I received (in part) about the godlike capabilities of
the AS400:

"... has 40 GB of disk and 512 MB of memory.  It can support up to 1024 MB
of memory, 996.4 GM of disk, 2400 workstations, 96 communication lines and
8 LAN ports.  It is at the BOTTOM of the current AS400 systems available.
We can grow from single processors to 12 way processors. The summary
comparisons I know of today speak to the ease of hardware and software
upgrades on the AS400, and the independence of OS/400 operating system from
it's underlying hardware.  The AS400 has a superior DB2 relational database
with a single database management system, no Oracle, no Informix, no KSAM,
no Sybase, allowing for third party packages to more easily join the data.
This provides the ability to choose "Best of Class" software when needed
instead of relying on a single software solution."

I'm not trying to cut this guy down.  He probably has a warm fuzzy feeling
about the system he has worked with his whole career and is probably
feeling very threatened right now since initially we were winning.

Can someone tell me the lowest HP that most closely meets the above
criteria?  Or maybe give me a nicely worded response?

Kim Williams
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BTW, I subscribe in digest so I apologize for any delays in response.



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Subject: RE: Information on HP vs IBM
Author:  Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>  at internet
Date:    9/24/98 12:03 PM


Kim,

> Thanks for the responses.  I was really hoping for
> "benchmarks" (there's
> that topic again).  The company we recently consolidated with
> is convinced
> that our HP can't handle their volume of transactions.

What kind of volume are we talking about here?  What model 3000 are you
running?  Memory?  Disk?  This kind of information would be able to shed
some light on the issue.

> If it were simply cost of ownership we would win hands down.  They pay
> $100,000 per month for their AS400!

You can get one hell of an upgrade for 100K, and a lot less too!

Best Regards,
Joe

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