Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.

[Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx>]

The big deal on these machines is that there is no more 5250 governor.  Also,
they are now user based priced for the OS.  Watch for the big addon charge for
"remote access".  It adds $4k to the price.

Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com
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albartell wrote:

> After following a couple links I got to this page:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yuzdtp
>
> or
>
> http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss?DocURL=http://d03xhttpcl001g.bould
> er.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUSC07-021/../../../1/897/ENUS107-181/in
> dex.html&InfoType=AN#@2h@88@
>
> If you scroll down or search for value '6010' it appears as though you can
> get a very entry level machine for around $8K.  I am not a wizard at viewing
> these things, and based on that page it is hard to see exactly what you get
> for that amount.  It would be nice if you got a machine you could actually
> develop RPG code on, which means it would have to include the compilers
> (which I doubt it does).
>
> Aaron Bartell
>
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> IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.
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> for your reference:
>
> IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.
> Model 515 is focus on SMB new acquisition with attractive price for
> total solution including BP/ISV solution and System i 515. Model 525
> is the replacement of model 520. i5/OS user based licensing is also a
> new approach for SMB customers. For model 550/570/595, i5/OS
> application server is for second partition which not use database to
> significantly reduce the i5/OS license charge.
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