RE: New i5 Express Models

["albartell" <albartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know you are just kidding, and one would think moving a machine from one
location to another would be just fine.  But when I purchased our iSeries,
because it wasn't going to be located at the "main headquarters" address, I
had to re-fill-out a whole bunch of forms for the actual physical location
of the machine.  I believe I was also bound to notify of any address change
the machine has.  Not sure if this is being done for my benefit (i.e.
on-site support) or not.

Jon, I wish LPARs were cheaper as I would simply give you your own LPAR on
my machine, but unfortunately it requires the purchase of more hardware
(i.e. the HMC and addtl dedicated HD's) and I also believe that I am bound
by contract to not "rent" space on my iSeries.  What a joke, I should be
able to use it however I want!  I am, after all, paying a premium for it!!


Later,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+albartell=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+albartell=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Pete Helgren
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 10:24 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: New i5 Express Models

Jon,

Wasn't aware of the disparity.  If you want, I'll open another shop in 
Canada and send you a 515   :-)   (My 17 year old wants to go to Canada 
for his 18th birthday [Hmmm, why would he want to do that?] so I could drive
it up to you.....)

Pete

Jon Paris wrote:
> Which would be great if I needed all that horsepower - but I don't.  
>
>  >> I haven't seen the full pricer, but theoretically a development 
> machine for 5 users and the 50% developer discount would come in at around
$5500.
> And that's the rub Pete.  If I could get that I'd buy one tomorrow.  
> But I can't get the developer discount.  _If_ I was based in the U.S. 
> it is just possible that I could sufficiently bend the current rules 
> to (sort of) qualify - but I'm based in Canada and my experience with 
> the BP program here is that it is pretty lousy.  In fact I know 
> Canadian software houses who opened US development "offices" to 
> qualify for the US program.  Not only do we pay a premium on the 
> hardware cost, but we don't get the free software that is available to BPs
in the US.  That just adds to the cost.
> Just to give you another example - a while back they had a special 
> where they reinstated the 1% lease and offered reasonably configured 
> 270 models in the US for about $11K.  They ran the same program in 
> Canada but slapped a Cdn$25K minimum on it!  The US minimum was $7,000!
>
> I'm told by colleagues elsewhere in the world that I should be happy 
> because the BP programs are even worse there than here in Canada.
>
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
>
> www.Partner400.com
>
>
>   
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