Lukas,
I agree that IBM's prices were out of this world, but hardware has
come down. Yes, with Power 6 the hardware is down, but now you pay
additional for the i5/OS so it's somewhat of a wash, but it is still
cheaper. But isn't that where the value is in i5/OS? Why wouldn't we want
to pay for it?
Now a little fun. Wow you must have fast laptops over there. We
installed a 515 at a customer last year, and they have about 75 users on it
at all times, I couldn't imagine the size of a laptop that could handle 75
users. How heavy is this laptop? By the way, we do always try to make sure
we have 4GB on any machine we sell, but then again the last PC I ordered had
2GB and that was a single user.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:17 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM investment in i
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
These BPs are "not" selling to small accounts. They have no financial
interest
in a small 520/525 account. When these small starter systems started
dying off, there was nobody there to pick up the slack.
We're not a big IBM BP, but a small one. The biggest machine we've
sold to date was a 525 with an EXP24 and two PCI expansion units - and
we mostly sell very baseline 515 machines.
However, this is not easy, which is IBMs fault.
* HW prices are far too high. 20k CHF (~= 20k US$) for a baseline 515
including HW/SW Maintenance. Performance of a baseline 515 is
_extremely_ slow, can be compared to a laptop
* High prices for HW/SW maintenance. e.G. 3Y 7x24 for up to 3-5kCHF,
depending on region etc.
* Missing self-managed features (e.G. Automatic Updates)
* No Marketing from IBM, no Market presence
We usually get the one or the other new customer per year, but it
could be a lot better.
midrange.com
