Re: POWER is good, if used correctly
As much as I love Power you have hit on one reason it fails to make any significant inroads. Proper costing just doesn't happen.
Purchasing is by line of business and project managers. No one has the money or want to 'but the bus' either. Once you have to start talking about TCO you are getting into the same place when trying to sell a mainframe.
Add this to the fact that x86 vs pSeries is almost like a religious war (when talking about utilisation), lack of skills and being made non-strategic by a lot of clients you dont have a good story.
OpenPower is actually a good initiative but suffers greatly from ISV support. IBM do not help themselves at all either in not providing enough routes or incentives for certification. They also are mostly clueless when going to market.
Crap turned into an IBM bashing session.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
