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IBM Provides More Details on Power6 System p 550 Trade Ins
Published: February 14, 2008
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
As part of its rollout of the entry and midrange System p servers using its dual-core Power6 processors two weeks ago, Scott Handy, vice president of worldwide marketing and strategy for IBM's Power Systems division, said that the company would be giving customers using iron from its competitors trade-ins on their iron if they move to the new System p 550 machine. IBM has now provided some more details about that trade-in deal, and it turns out to be a bit more complicated.
As Handy said two weeks ago, the deal does not include the entry System p 520 machine, which spans up to four Power6 cores, but does include the System p 550, which spans up to eight cores. (That is twice the core count in the System p 520 and 550 machines sold using Power5 and Power5+ processors, by the way.) And customers buying a new Power6-based System p 550 server with 3.5 GHz cores can get a $600 per core trade-in on the server they buy. Those who go for the slightly faster (and a lot more expensive) 4.2 GHz Power6 processors can get a $1,200 per core trade-in. That works out to $1,800 to $9,600 in trade-ins, depending on what customers buy.
But wait, it is not that simple. Those are the maximum possible trade-in credits you can get, but the actual trade-in credit will actually depend on the box you trade in. IBM says that the trade ins offered under this deal are based on the fair market value of the replaced gear made by Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu-Siemens, or Hewlett-Packard, plus an additional and unspecified incentive. So the amount of the trade-in you get when you buy a new System p 550 will depend on the make and model of the box and how many processors are inside that box, as follows:
| Sun Machines |
CPUs |
Trade In |
| Sun Fire V480 |
2 |
$3,000 |
| Sun Fire V480 |
4 |
$6,000 |
| Sun Fire V880 |
4 |
$7,000 |
| Sun Fire V880 |
8 |
$9,600 |
| Sun Fire E3800 |
8 |
$9,600 |
| Sun Fire E4800/E4810 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| Sun Fire E4800/E4810 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| Sun Fire E4800/E4810 |
12 |
$9,600 |
| Sun Fire V440 |
2 |
$3,000 |
| Sun Fire V440 |
4 |
$6,000 |
| Sun Fire V490/V890 |
2 |
$6,500 |
| Sun Fire V490/V890 |
4 |
$8,000 |
| Sun Fire V890 |
8 |
$9,600 |
| Sun V1280 and Netra 1280 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| Sun V1280 and Netra 1280 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| Sun V1280 and Netra 1280 |
12 |
$9,600 |
| Sun Netra 1290 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| Sun Netra 1290 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| Sun Netra 1290 |
12 |
$9,600 |
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| Fujitsu-Siemens Machines |
|
|
| PrimePower 400 |
2 |
$3,000 |
| PrimePower 400 |
4 |
$4,000 |
| PrimePower 450 |
2 |
$4,000 |
| PrimePower 450 |
4 |
$7,000 |
| PrimePower 600/800/900 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| PrimePower 600/800/900 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| PrimePower 800/900 |
12 |
$9,600 |
| PrimePower 650/850 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| PrimePower 650/850 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| PrimePower 850 |
12 |
$9,600 |
| PrimePower 1000/2000 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| PrimePower 1000/2000 |
12 |
$9,600 |
| PrimePower 1500 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| PrimePower 1500/2500 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| PrimePower 1500/2500 |
12 |
$9,600 |
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| Hewlett-Packard Machines |
|
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| HP Server rp5470 |
1 |
$3,000 |
| HP Server rp5470 |
3 |
$5,000 |
| HP Server rp4440 |
4 |
$7,500 |
| HP Server rp4440 |
8 |
$9,600 |
| HP Server rp7410 |
4 |
$8,000 |
| HP Server rp7410 |
8 |
$9,600 |
| HP 9000
rp3440/rp4410/rp54XX |
2 |
$5,000 |
| HP 9000
rp3440/rp4410/rp54XX |
4 |
$6,500 |
| HP 9000
rp7400/rp7420/rp7440 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| HP 9000
rp7400/rp7420/rp7400 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| HP 9000 rp7420/rp7440 |
12 |
$9,600 |
| HP rx7620/rx8620 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| HP rx7620/rx8620 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| HP rx8620 |
12 |
$9,600 |
| HP AlphaServer
GS80/GS160 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| HP AlphaServer
GS80/GS160 |
8 |
$8,000 |
| HP AlphaServer ES40 |
2 |
$4,000 |
| HP AlphaServer ES40 |
4 |
$6,000 |
| HP AlphaServer
ES45/ES47/ES80 |
2 |
$5,000 |
| HP AlphaServer
ES45/ES47/ES80 |
4 |
$6,500 |
| HP AlphaServer ES80 |
6 |
$8,000 |
| HP AlphaServer ES80 |
8 |
$9,600 |
Customers who want to consolidate multiple Sun, Fujitsu-Siemens, or HP machines onto a single System p 550 using the Power6 processors can, and presumably IBM is keen on allowing customers who have a mix of Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 Unix, and OpenVMS iron onto an AIX box to mix across vendors and not just within a single vendor's catalog. This deal does not have an end date, which means can end it at any time.
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