RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

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From: Ingvaldson, Scott [mailto:SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:17 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

>It's my understanding that the p5 price includes hardware only, isn't
>there an extra charge even for the O/S?  I know that DB2 costs extra,
>and what about all of the management utilities?  As always, the true
>cost is the TCO, but it takes a good amount of reasearch and experience
>to come up with those numbers.

Scott,

not to be a bother, but IBM made the decision just 2 yrs ago to slash the price 
of the p5 and keep the i5 where it was.  A dual core p5 is sold by IBM for 
$4000. AIX is $1500.  IBM software support is another $1500. DB2 for the dual 
core p5 is $4600 per core or approx $130 per user.

-Steve