Bang for the Buck: Big Iron Boxes, Even Bigger Bucks
October 2, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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In the past few months, I have examined the price/performance of baby, small, midrange, and enterprise System i5 servers against their competition in the Windows, Linux, and Unix counterparts. But there are bigger boxes still, the so-called big iron machines, which are the largest single-system image servers that any vendor puts into the field. While the System i5 machines do poorly compared to their peers at the low end when it comes to value for dollar, on the biggest boxes, the System i5 can be competitive. That’s not to say that there is not plenty of room for improvement, so |