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On 4/3/06, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Wall outlet to user responsibility costrs money, and lots of it. IBM > answers the phone. Dell, and so many other companies like them, do not. IBM support line for the p5 is $1000 per year. > So, the question becomes, How does IBM raise the money? Regardless of > the strategy used, the total must be raised. IBM has tried lots and > lots of ways; none seem popular. >From Al Mac's post: from 2004 to 2005 IBM revenue increased 0.8 % for iSeries The best such increase was 39.2 % for Engineering and Technology Services while the worst was NEGATIVE 23.0 percent for Retail Store Solutions. Just looking at the eServers zSeries NEGATIVE 7.6 % iSeries 0,8 % pSeries 14.6 % due to POWER architecture xSeries 5.9% -------------------------------------------- IBM has been cutting the price on the pSeries, yet sales $ are increasing. > > I am curious: Where does the TCO argument lie today? For a long while, > if true total costs were calculated, Windows did not come in as the > low-ball price. Whatever the TCO numbers are, the fact that the pSeries hardware was $15K in 2002 and $4K today, the TCO of the IBM p5 has dropped dramatically. -Steve
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