Re: How much to buy an second hand IBM i hardware and what about licences

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Exactly right John.  You May be able to find a system with software on 
it, usually an old release, but it will with near certainty not be 
legal. You won't have support won't be able to get fixes and of course 
using an old release means you're stuck without all the cool new stuff 
that IBM keeps adding to IBM i.

Plus you'll need to keep it backed up, feed it power and possibly keep 
it cool, and if it fails find parts to fix it. This of course will occur 
when you need it most. :-)

The cost of today's hardware continues to fall and on a new machine you 
can get a P05 software tier which is the lowest price out there for you 
to have your own IBM i.  There were a couple Power5 machines in the P05 
tier and some Power6 also but Power5 won't run i 7.2.

<vendor response>

This is one of the reasons that Pete and I run iInTheCloud. We can sell 
you a partition of your own with anything from i 6.1 to i 7.2. We keep 
the licensing current, pay for support, maintain all the network 
components, feed in power and cooling, have options for backups and PTF 
etc. You just do what you do best and we do what we do. Links are below 
my signature.

</vendor response>


        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 12/13/2014 9:27 AM, John Smith wrote:

> Be careful when buying older used because these do not include software (OS, compilers, etc.).  A while back a company gave me a system and after checking into software pricing, it was cheaper to buy a new system.