Who's a good IBM (AIX) reseller?

[Cooky]

We're looking to buy an IBM AIX workstation.
Been trying to contact IBM direct and some resellers listed on their website. Believe it or not, we, as potential customer, have not been able to get a single quote since last Thursday!!

I understand not everyone sells AIX stuff but this is ridiculous - many resellers phone numbers on IBM's site are even disconnected.

If anyone knows any decent IBM resellers please post their contact info. I'll mention your name when I call if you desire.

Thanks!

 

[bgroff]

Hit me with a PM and I can put you in contact with my IBM side of the world. My company is a IBM reseller.

 

[Sunner]

IBM sucks for that kind of stuff in my experience.
We were looking at some POWER boxes at one time.
After a way too long wait, we got a few suggestions with prices, problem is they were all wrong.
So we correct their specs and ask for prices on the new stuff.
Another too long wait, and we get prices that are obviously screwed up(No, not even IBM charges ~$2,000 for a damn 72 GB hard drive, and I don't care if it's FC or not), total price being about 4x what we expected.
So we send it back asking if they're actually expecting to sell boxes with prices like those(these were mostly OpenPower boxes btw, supposedly cheap boxes).
Another long wait and we get a spec with much better prices, but it's wrong once again.

We gave up and went with HP.

Just had to vent a bit...