If the price isn't listed, I always take it as a sign that nobody is buying it for price reasons ("if you have to ask, you can't afford it"). Outside of the blog, I don't even see a claim that it's cheaper so that's consistent.
That quote (which may not even have been said by J.P. Morgan) is talking about luxury consumer goods, which is a completely different market than business to business sales.
By way of contrast, a payments provider we explored had four moderate sized boxes running everything. They were about six years old and fully depreciated, but more than adequate to run millions of transactions through a month.