Gartner Report Espouses the Virtues of i5/OS
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| "While System i5 users continue to give it high scores in terms
| of functionality and manageability, its technology advancements have
| not stopped Windows, Unix or Linux systems from stealing sales."
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| Aside from that, you have to rely on the scattered benchmarks that
| Windows, Unix, and Linux server makers supply to existing and potential
| customers.
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| These survey numbers, of course, tell us nothing about what these
| various platforms are doing at these companies and the relative
| importance of the workloads. What is clear is that there seems to be
| a lot of Windows out there, and if IBM is going to be an SMB competitor
| with the System i5, then it needs to take on Windows and start beating
| it. This, it would seem, would be the only way to reverse this sentence
| in the Gartner report: "While customers should not worry about the i5
| being eliminated within the next few years, market visibility isunlikely
| to ever rebound to where it was in 2000."
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