Yup. And I am NOT a compliance officer. I'll do best effort, but if IBM wants accuracy, the software needs to handle it.
And I agree with Dirk ... the curent maintenance/support/licensing startegy is (and has been since back in the 3.x days) stupid to the point of incompetence. Let me propose this, and see how many of you think it's viable: Server licensing based on the old 2.x model -- 1 drive manual 2 to 4 drive manual or autochanger 4 to 8 drives, up to 100 slots for tape Single library larger than 8 drives or 100 slots Additional charge for each additional library Client licenses -- something around but under $100 per client (any kind of client) for the backup/archive/api client. Current pricing model for the TDP products. Maintenance: Server -- 20 percent of list. Client -- cost of 1 client license, plus $1 per client licensed. TDP products -- 15% of list The problem I see is this probably won't come anywhere near close to the revenue stream IBM/Tivoli is trying to get from the product. OTOH, I can count the number of support calls I've made for TSM issues since 1997 on the fingers of my hands -- and have a couple of fingers left . . . And I can flat-out guarantee that I won't be able to fill out this kind of survey next year on the new pricing model -- I won't have access to the information. Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 7:02 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question for you On May 22, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Schneider, John wrote: > Is IBM listening, I hope? IBM's licensing strategy should be > greatly simplified, or based on something that the TSM client itself > could track and report. It absolutely should! Here is a major technology company, telling its customers to go conduct a manual audit of hundreds of client systems throughout every customer establishment, as though it's 1975 again. For a company doing things like Autonomic Computing, this is a *major* failure in technology deployment, for which IBM should be dragged over the coals by the management of the victim customer sites being subjected to this astounding nonsense. Richard Sims CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.