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A few month ago at HP Technology Forum in Las Vegas we announced the launch of our new Integrity Nonstop Bladesystem offering.  Twice the performance, half the footprint, 100% Nonstop.  As part of our launch we also announced a marketing program to give away a free Nonstop to customer who want to get off of a mainframe.  You can get the details here:  NonStop FREEdom.  I don’t want to rehash what we launched, but since we did this, I’ve gone to a number of customers and it seems as though IBM has been offering a few folks some free mainframes.  The problem is that I can’t find any public marketing program that talks about these free mainframes.  It seems you might have to specifically ask for one.  At least we made our Nonstop FREEdom program a public and visible program.  In any event, if you happen to need an IBM mainframe, and you’re not getting yours for free, make sure you push a little.  Maybe we need to provide you a competitive quote to help you out. 

 

Posted 07-28-2008 9:23 PM by Martin Fink
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Richard Buckle wrote re: Hidden Freedom
on 07-30-2008 11:48 PM

Seems to me as though it's a scene right out of Oliver Twist -"Please, sir, I want some more." I can just imagine the CIO standing in front of IBM Sales, cap in hand, asking if there's anything he can have for free ... The launch of the NonStop FREEdom program, and seeing it documented and promoted is perhaps one of the most significant milestones in the history of NonStop and the management team that worked on it (and persuaded others along the way) have to be congratulated!

jayparkes wrote re: Hidden Freedom
on 08-11-2008 12:53 PM

Wasn't quite sure where, or to whom, to post my question, so I hope you don't mind, but I was wondering where I could access whatever info HP may have already made public about its plans to incorporate Intel's new Nehalem processor family into HP servers, especially blade servers??

Thanks

Martin Fink wrote re: Hidden Freedom
on 08-15-2008 8:20 PM

Relative to the comment regarding the Intel Nehalem processor family - watch this web site for details as they evolve. We've not made any public pronouncements on Nahalem yet.

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