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Re: i5/OS on other hardware?

On 7/18/07, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve, just curious, where did you get the $1250 for i5OS?

5 users at $250 per user. This price is comparable to what you pay on
the p for AIX + DB2 licenses ( which are priced per user )

Is there a
sticker price of $6750 for p5 somewhere?

here is a rack mounted quad core p5 for $5830
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/entry/510q/browse.html

Also, does p5 have a charge for
"non-employee" users (i.e. the $4k add-on that anybody doing web needs to
buy)? That would mean that the i5 is really at $12k vs. $8k. But at that
point we aren't really talking hardware costs and instead licensing - though
maybe IBM will compete the p5 and i5 between themselves?

the p5 is a market priced system. the i5 is dummy priced. IBM is
seeing great sales and profit growth in its software products. If
they scrapped the i5 hardware the UBP i5/OS software would sell much
better.

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