Please contact me off list.... Many thanks, Richard Richard Zimmerman River Bend Hose Specialty, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> On Behalf Of John Plemons Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 3:44 PM To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>; mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> Subject: Re: [CentOS] IBM buying RedHat 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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists > .centos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fcentos&data=01%7C01%7C%7C749a85 > 82882d42e8d10608d63ea0133f%7Cb3c3a8cee92c4e649d5171c264cb08d6%7C0& > sdata=tbuiNRDP%2FgjzIszWCOs7bOpzk4lzk1PTKIPK9UxQTd8%3D&reserved=0 > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.centos.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fcentos&data=01%7C01%7C%7C749a8582882d42e8d10608d63ea0133f%7Cb3c3a8cee92c4e649d5171c264cb08d6%7C0&sdata=tbuiNRDP%2FgjzIszWCOs7bOpzk4lzk1PTKIPK9UxQTd8%3D&reserved=0