Re: 2005 best year for iSeries in a DECADE

On 4/3/06, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wall outlet to user responsibility costrs money, and lots of it.  IBM
> answers the phone.  Dell, and so many other companies like them, do not.

IBM support line for the p5 is $1000 per year.

> So, the question becomes, How does IBM raise the money?  Regardless of
> the strategy used, the total must be raised.   IBM has tried lots and
> lots of ways; none seem popular.

>From Al Mac's post:

from 2004 to 2005 IBM revenue increased 0.8 % for iSeries
The best such increase was 39.2 % for Engineering and Technology Services
while the worst was NEGATIVE 23.0 percent for Retail Store Solutions.  Just
looking at the eServers
zSeries NEGATIVE 7.6 %
iSeries 0,8 %
pSeries 14.6 % due to POWER architecture
xSeries 5.9%
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IBM has been cutting the price on the pSeries, yet sales $ are increasing.

>
> I am curious:  Where does the TCO argument lie today?  For a long while,
> if true total costs were calculated, Windows did not come in as the
> low-ball price.

Whatever the TCO numbers are, the fact that the pSeries hardware was
$15K in 2002 and $4K today, the TCO of the IBM p5 has dropped
dramatically.

-Steve