520 pricing structure

A little more research reveals the following:

The low-end 520s are 1GB machines with 35GB available disk space.  The
littlest one has no development tools; it's an orphan edition.  All the
others include the tools (at an additional cost of $700, as I said).  

There are two other options:
Option A: $5700 buys you RAID capability on your DASD.
Option B: It costs another $11,500 for another 500CPW of power.

Leading to four configurations:
$11.4 for neither option
$17.1 for option A only
$22.9 for option B
$28.6 for options A & B

That seems a little steep for the extra CPW, but who am I to say?  Note
that this includes 30 interactive CPW on the base edition, 60 with
option B.

Joe


> From: Joe Pluta
> 
> As I read it, the price for query tools, iSeries access and WDS on a
new
> model 520 is about $700.  Not bad, considering WSAD sells for about
> $2500 a seat in the open market.