Will New Rebates on Standard Edition i5s Boost Sales?
October 23, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Last week, on the same day that IBM announced that sales of System i5 servers were down 22 percent in the third quarter, the company also announced a rebate deal that gives significant cash back to customers with older iSeries gear as well as newer i5 gear running i5/OS Enterprise Edition if they move to a new System i5 machine running i5/OS V5R4 Standard Edition. The two events are almost certainly connected. There was a lot of concern about the drop in iSeries sales in the quarter. We have gone over the numbers in detail in the IBM financial coverage |