IBM Can’t Be Serious About Selling Used IBM i Systems
April 15, 2013 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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If you are poking around the IBM website, looking for cheap second-hand equipment to run older releases of the IBM i operating system, you might think you are in some kind of a time warp. But fear not, it is not you. It is Big Blue. Check out the two machines that IBM Global Financing is selling as refurbished systems:
These are exactly the same two machines offered up in January 2011, with the same i5/OS V5R4 software at exactly the same prices. These System i 520 machines were ridiculously priced back then, and I said so at the time. After the Power7 machines had been out for nearly a year, there is no way that the beefier box shown above was worth $49,225. That’s just a silly price. IBM no doubt has second-hand machines of a more recent vintage with IBM i 6.1 or 7.1 installed. That is the machinery it should be showing, not rusty old gear with an operating system that loses maintenance on September 30. RELATED STORIES IBM Starts Refurbishing Power Systems Machines In China What Is A Used 520-Class Machine Worth? Secondhand Power 520s from IBM Global Financing Pretty Pricey IBM Peddling Vintage iSeries Boxes at a Premium
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