If the author seems concerned about core counts per chip, why doesn't the author also care about Gigahertz? A System z10 EC CPU, at 4.4 GHz, is the highest clock speed CPU with more than two cores available in the entire market. For the record, the highest clock speed business server CPU, regardless of core count, is the dual-core POWER6 CPU, at 5.0 GHz.
Actually, the IFL pricing is new news. IBM reduced the System z10 EC IFL price to $75,000 each (down from $125,000). The System z10 BC IFL is priced at $47,500, although I think that pricing was known a little earlier. (The EC IFL price at least is new news.) There are also significant reductions in memory pricing. As Mark Post alludes to, the author forgot lots of things, including (for example) the traditional separation between IFL purchases and frame upgrade purchases. That is, typically an IFL purchase much more closely resembles a one-time charge. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
