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  • More Power Systems Price Changes and Tweaks

    June 8, 2009 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    OK, IBM, this is getting to be a habit.

    Last week, IBM once again tweaked the pricing on a bunch of upgrade features for its Power Systems lineup, once again cutting prices pretty dramatically. The price changes, which went into effect on June 2, are shown in the table below:

    From To List Price Price
    Machine Feature Machine Feature Description Old New Change
    9119 7667 9119 4754 2.1 GHz Power5+ to 4.2 GHz Power6 $16,550 $16,500 -0.3%
    9119 7667 9119 4755 2.1 GHz Power5+ to 5 GHz GHz Power6 $24,735 $19,485 -21.2%
    9119 7925 9119 4754 p5 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $16,800 $18,825 12.1%
    9119 7925 9119 4755 p5 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $17,000 $20,200 18.8%
    9119 7990 9119 4754 p5 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $17,950 $16,750 -6.7%
    9119 7990 9119 4755 p5 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $23,775 $16,875 -29.0%
    9119 8471 9119 5680 1 GB DDR1 to 1 GB DDR2 $868 $400 -53.9%
    9119 8472 9119 5681 256 GB DDR1 to 256 GB DDR2 $222,340 $102,400 -53.9%
    9406 7280 9119 5681 2 GB DDR1 to 2 GB DDR2 $194,048 $89,600 -53.8%
    9406 7668 9119 4754 i 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $17,545 $14,295 -18.5%
    9406 7668 9119 4755 i 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $18,000 $16,750 -6.9%
    9406 7669 9119 5680 1 GB DDR1 to 1 GB DDR2 $758 $350 -53.8%
    9406 7799 9119 5681 256 GB DDR1 to 256 GB DDR2 $83,712 $38,400 -54.1%
    9406 7815 9119 4754 i 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $18,575 $13,675 -26.4%
    9406 7815 9119 4755 i 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $27,775 $15,850 -42.9%
    9406 7925 9119 4754 i 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $19,625 $16,750 -14.6%
    9406 7925 9119 4755 i 595 book to 4.2 GHz Power6 book $28,100 $16,875 -39.9%
    9406 7970 9119 5680 Base 1 GB DDR1 to 1 GB DDR2 $327 $150 -54.1%
    9406 8460 9119 5680 1 GB DDR1 to 1 GB DDR2 $778 $360 -53.7%

    These price changes listed above are a companion set to a bunch of changes IBM made to reduce upgrade costs into the Power Systems line on May 19, which I told you about in the May 26 issue of The Four Hundred. That first batch of price cuts were for upgrading processor book, processor core, and memory on older System p machines using certain Power5+ processors to their Power6 equivalents in the Power 595. At the time, I said that System i customers upgrading to Power 595s should demand the same kind of deal, and lo and behold, as the table above shows, customers upgrading from System i 595 (9406) machines to Power 595s (9119) are also getting big discounts. And for some reason, IBM cut a little deep on the System p to Power Systems upgrades and in two cases actually raised the prices it cut several weeks ago.

    One other tweak. A long-running competitive replacement trade-in deal that IBM has been using for its System p line to give rebates to customers moving from other Unix boxes was updated to allow upgrades into the Power Systems line from vintage AS/400 and iSeries boxes back in March, and then had the once-popular iSeries Model 250 added as a replaceable machine in April. Last week, the list of eligible products that can be acquired under this trade-in deal was expanded to include Power 520 machines using the 4.7 GHz Power6+ chips and Power 550 boxes using the 5 GHz Power6+ chips, machines that were launched on April 28.

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