The following is an extract from announcement letter ENUS108-754 for the US and ENUSZG08-0843 for EMEA issued on October 21, 2008:
"62% price reduction on Memory for System z10 BC or EC when purchased after October 21, 2008, and with a Specialty Engine(1) for new workloads, now $2,250 per GB(2). (1) Prices are stated in U.S. currency for the U.S. and may vary by country. Specialty Engines do not include Internal Coupling Facilities (ICFs). (2) Limited to 16 GB per Specialty Engine " The following URL refers to the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) IBM web page http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/solutions/ifl.html This is a section from "Highlights" "62% price reduction on memory for System z10 BC or z10 EC when purchased after October 21, 2008 - now $2,250 per GB(3) for the first 16 GB of a new workload on an IFL (3)Limited to 16GB per Specialty Engine " When compared with the paragraph from the US and EMEA announcement letters of October 21, 2008 you will notice that the requirement to purchase a specialty engine has been omitted. Does this now mean that I can purchase 16GB of memory at the cheaper price to use with my first installation of z/VM and Linux (a new workload) on an IFL which I have installed (cannot use it because all available memory is used by z/OS)? Comments anybody. Geoff McKee Emirates Group -- Geoff M [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
