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Volume 17, Number 41 -- October 27, 2008

A Minor Tweak in Power 520 Pricing

Published: October 27, 2008

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Last week, IBM continued to tweak its product pricing for the Power Systems i and System i product line.

The price of the base 9407-M15 (that's the original Power Systems Power 520 i Edition) and the 8203-E4A (that's the converged i-AIX-Linux box announced on October 7 that has twice the Power6 cores) was dropped by $299. Then the price for the feature 7112 and 7113 deskside covers for these two boxes was raised from $300 to $599, and the price for the rack-mount drawer rail kit for these two machines was upped from $150 to $300.

This could be the shortest story I have ever written. It had to happen sooner or later.

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Editor: Timothy Prickett Morgan

Contributing Editors: Dan Burger, Joe Hertvik, Brian Kelly, Shannon O'Donnell,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

IBM's Q3 in Servers, Redux: The i and p Platforms Do OK

So Much For That Unbundled i Compiler Tool Pricing

SOA Without the Middleware, Without the Pressure

As I See It: The IT Election

Gartner Outlines the Key IT for 2009

But Wait, There's More:

Ask TPM--Who, or Where, in the World Buys All Those Servers? . . . Tom Jarosh, Former AS/400 General Manager, Dies at 55 . . . Another AS/400 User Group Powers Down . . . SMBs in Europe Expected to Spend $7.6 Billion on Servers, Networking . . . A Minor Tweak in Power 520 Pricing . . .

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