IBM lowers price points with new midrange mainframe

07.06.2006

IBM charges a one-time fee of US$95,000 for a single-engine processor, lower than the previous $125,000 it announced when it launched the higher-end z9 Enterprise Class mainframe.

These new IBM mainframes also allow users to extend 'subcapacity' settings to more engines than the previous z890 mainframe, according to Mike Bliss, technical support and marketing handling IBM's System Z mainframe line.

'This is something customers have been asking us to do,' Bliss said during the press briefing.