Re: How much to buy an second hand IBM i hardware and what about licences

This issue comes up from time to time ...

The creap used systems are worthless unless you have all the software you
will
need for it and are able to transfer the licenses to the used box.

Instead buy a LPAR at iDevCloud (or others) it actually dosn't cost much
more
than the power you use on a used system and you are free of server noise in
your
home ;-)



On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 3:41 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Exactly right John. You May be able to find a system with software on it,
usually an old release, but it will with near certainty not be legal. You
won't have support won't be able to get fixes and of course using an old
release means you're stuck without all the cool new stuff that IBM keeps
adding to IBM i.

Plus you'll need to keep it backed up, feed it power and possibly keep it
cool, and if it fails find parts to fix it. This of course will occur when
you need it most. :-)

The cost of today's hardware continues to fall and on a new machine you
can get a P05 software tier which is the lowest price out there for you to
have your own IBM i. There were a couple Power5 machines in the P05 tier
and some Power6 also but Power5 won't run i 7.2.

<vendor response>

This is one of the reasons that Pete and I run iInTheCloud. We can sell
you a partition of your own with anything from i 6.1 to i 7.2. We keep the
licensing current, pay for support, maintain all the network components,
feed in power and cooling, have options for backups and PTF etc. You just
do what you do best and we do what we do. Links are below my signature.

</vendor response>


- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 12/13/2014 9:27 AM, John Smith wrote:

Be careful when buying older used because these do not include software

(OS, compilers, etc.). A while back a company gave me a system and after
checking into software pricing, it was cheaper to buy a new system.

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