On 30/10/2018 17:14, Simon Matter wrote:
Are you sure, has this changed? In the past time when I had to do with iSeries, they even had their own rack size, no chance to put them into a standard server rack.
Ah, I must admit that I didn't look at rack sizes.
I agree the Power System L922 looks promising, but I'm afraid the "Please contact us for pricing" still means the prices are eye watering. The problem is that there is almost no competition in the POWER server market which results in higher prices.
Yup. When I looked at IBM Power machines before (maybe about a year ago, not sure), there was actually a pricing tool on the website. You could go through various options for machines (GPUs, CPUs, storage, memory, etc.) and get a price. Annoyingly I didn't record detailed pricing info but, as I recall, the prices were painful but not totally out of comparison with high end x86-64 servers from HPE and the like. I wish I'd kept the quotes now.
IBM has the chance to change this now.
It would be nice if they would. But I think it be a very big step for them to willingly reduce prices unless and until other vendors can undercut them in a large enough scale. But it seems that a lot of people in larger businesses still like the security of "IBM" (even if they choose to run Linux on the boxes).