Showing pricing is always a problematical activity. Perhaps a little clarity on why 55% vs. 5%.

First IBM. Street pricing used here was 5% off retail price - online posted pricing.

Now Cisco. The 55% off is NOT off "retail". It is off Cisco GPL (global price list). Approx 47% off GPL = Cisco MSRP - Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price. Other folks have used Cisco GPL to "illustrate" that Cisco UCS is too expensive. That is the sad truth not a fair or transparent comparison.

5% off IBM retail and 55% off Cisco GPL are really extremely close pricing comparisons.

If you want retail to retail comparisons then you have undiscounted online pricing for other server vendors and ~47% off Cisco GPL. That is a fair comparison.

So how do you do that? We just recently stood up a Build To Order (BTO) section on our Build & Price portal (http://buildprice.cisco.com/). Choose blade or rack servers, pick a model and check out the Build To Order tab.