With that said I think I might be cashing in on my "opt out at 12 months"
lease option. If all this is still true then I would imagine I could get a
spankin' new 515 with full sw and hw maint for less than it would cost me to
keep my 520 - crazy.
What do they do with machines when they are done with the lease? Sell them
on eBay?
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:07 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Personal Deskside System i for developers
Sooner or later you're going to get dinged for support.
Nope - unless it has changed, there is nothing in the BP agreement that says
that the new machine you order has to be more recent/faster/bigger/etc. The
lease allows you to change machines at the 12 month point (that's what we
did with my previous company) and so your warranty maintenance clock starts
over. We first discovered this when IBM wanted some crazy amount of money
to reinstate our software maint but would give us a new system basically for
nothing. After the original machine died as we were getting ready to return
it to IBM swapping every 12 months started to look like a _really_ good
deal!
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com
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