If any one is interested, I have a brand new AS400 sitting upstairs in my computer room, it was a bought as surplus item, never used. I just hung onto it. It can be yours cheap, not wanting an arm and a leg for it, I would be open to a nice offer if anyone has an interest. john plemons On 10/30/2018 3:37 PM, mark wrote: > Mark Rousell wrote: >> On 30/10/2018 17:14, Simon Matter wrote: > <snip> >> 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). >> > Unless I'm misremembering, these are midway between small server and > mainframe. I just did a search, and only found used systems, never new, > and they were all "refurbed", starting at $1500, and going up to $22k... > and still refurbed. > > I think my guess of new, > $100k is about right. > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >