Just what does a CIO do with aging equipment that is still usable but not the best available on the market? Palm Beach Community College in Florida came up with an idea about what to do with an IBM zSeries server that cost $500,000 in 2005. Last month, the school sold it on eBay for $40,000. Tony Parziale, CIO at the Florida college, had decided to move some of the school's business applications from the z890 machine to an Intel-based server that he felt could deliver the same level of processing services at a much lower cost. And that meant he no longer had any use for the $500,000 machine.
Yet he had a problem because resale brokers offered him just $15,000 for the nearly-new IBM. At the end of January, he made a deal on eBay that served his needs and was good for the buyer who wanted a slightly used IBM at a very good price. Corey Donovan, vice president of computer equipment reseller Vibrant Technologies, said it's "pretty rare" for zSeries systems to turn up on eBay, partly because of the resale restrictions IBM puts on the systems.
For more on ways to recycle your old equipment:
- See this ComputerWorld article
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