Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????

Speak 4 yourself Al.  Not all developers have the type of financial support
you have.  I agree that it is a good price still but with the problem of
iSeries IBM can do better if they won't spend on advertisement.

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Barsa" <barsa@barsaconsulting.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????


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> IBM has been literally giving away these machines, and (even though I have
> several systems leased this way) I don't think that this is unreasonable.
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> Al
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> I just got the following in an e-mail from IBM, this is a joke, right?
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> "Effective June 7th, the lease rate for the developer lease offering will
> change to 1.75% of list price.  The affected platforms are, iSeries,
> pSeries, Storage Systems and Retail Store Systems (Point of Sale).  The
> lease term duration is 24 months with no early termination option."
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> The last thing IBM should be doing is making it harder for software
> developers to get a machine and stay current on it. Does anying have any
> insight into this?
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> -Walden
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