Re: 2005 best year for iSeries in a DECADE

["Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may not be applicable since it was based internally on the numbers from 
a 9406-170:

9406-170 (3 years including support line and HW support) - $6,872.00
Dell PE2250 (3 years including support comparable to IBM) - $7916.00

That was for 1 Dell server which in our case would have required 2 so you 
could double that cost factor.

I have not completed a TCO this year yet, but since we are planning on 
adding a 520 in the 4th qtr I will do one no later than July.


On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 15:56:03 -0500, Booth Martin 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Steve Richter wrote:
> > On 4/3/06, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Was it ever anything other than a niche product?  Has our platform ever
> >> been anything more than a significant but small part of a very large 
market?
> >>
> > 
> > Booth,
> > 
> > there has never been as large a price premium for the iSeries that
> > there is today.
> > 
> > Here is an article dated June, 2002 that describes the new rs6000
> > systems of that time:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/06/25/ibm_floats_regattale_power4s/
> > 
> > "... A base pSeries 630 with a single 1GHz processor, 1GB of main
> > memory, 18GB of disk and a CD drive costs $14,120. ... a four-way
> > machine with base memory and disk will cost $30,120. ...A four-way
> > pSeries 680 with 450MHz Power3-II processors and 1GB of memory and
> > 18GB of disk has a list price of $42,477, and the four-way Model
> > 270-44P tower server with the same hardware inside sells for $50,618.
> > ..."
> > 
> > Those 2002 prices for the pSeries were comparable to the prices for
> > the iSeries ( and the rest of the industry ).  Now we fast forward to
> > 2006.  The i5 is about 20% cheaper than it was in 2002 but the p5 is a
> > fraction of its former price. A 1 way 1GHz pSeries 630 was $14k in
> > 2002. Today the p5 505 2 way 1.5 GHz is $4k!
> > 
> > -Steve
> >
> 
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