If any one is interested, I have a brand new AS400 sitting upstairs in
my computer room, it was a bought as surplus item, never used. I just
hung onto it. It can be yours cheap, not wanting an arm and a leg for
it, I would be open to a nice offer if anyone has an interest.
john plemons
On 10/30/2018 3:37 PM, mark wrote:
Mark Rousell wrote:
On 30/10/2018 17:14, Simon Matter wrote:
<snip>
Yup. When I looked at IBM Power machines before (maybe about a year ago,
not sure), there was actually a pricing tool on the website. You could go
through various options for machines (GPUs, CPUs, storage, memory, etc.)
and get a price. Annoyingly I didn't record detailed pricing info but, as
I recall, the prices were painful but not totally out of
comparison with high end x86-64 servers from HPE and the like. I wish I'd
kept the quotes now.
IBM has the chance to change this now.
It would be nice if they would. But I think it be a very big step for
them to willingly reduce prices unless and until other vendors can undercut
them in a large enough scale. But it seems that a lot of people in larger
businesses still like the security of "IBM" (even if they choose to run
Linux on the boxes).
Unless I'm misremembering, these are midway between small server and
mainframe. I just did a search, and only found used systems, never new,
and they were all "refurbed", starting at $1500, and going up to $22k...
and still refurbed.
I think my guess of new, > $100k is about right.
mark
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