Given this bill along with the software maintenance contract cost we will probably be forced to do the same. I really like TSM and think it's far superior to most other backup products.
It's just to damn expensive! Mark Remeta -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 5:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Licensing question Yep, that sounds accurate. And much as I like TSM, we are having to look elsewhere to back up our environment. I know IBM probably doesn't care, but not everyone can afford that. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remeta, Mark Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Licensing question I don't know if you remember I had emailed the list a while ago about a audit. Well I guess the reason I was audited was because my software maintenance contract was ending soon. Anyways, I called our IBM representative because there were several items under software maintenance that we were not using anymore and we did not want to pay software maintenance on. To make a long story short, we ended up auditing the entire quote for which I sent him a list of servers, cpus, cores that we were backing up. He had a rep from Tivoli do an analysis and it turns out we had 13 servers that were not licensed to be backed up. Yesterday my IBM rep sent me a quote for the new licenses and I was quite shocked at the total. For 13 servers the total price was almost 39 thousand dollars. This is just the license to back the server up. That works out to about 3,000 per server. Does this seem right? Is this about what everyone else is paying? It just seems awfully high for a client backup license... Thanks! Mark Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately. Please be advised that someone other than the intended recipients, including a third-party in the Seligman organization and government agencies, may review all electronic communications to and from this address. ----------------------------------------- Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this email message is privileged and confidential information and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named in the address. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this information is strictly prohibited. If you received this information in error, please notify the sender and delete this information from your computer and retain no copies of any of this information. Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately. Please be advised that someone other than the intended recipients, including a third-party in the Seligman organization and government agencies, may review all electronic communications to and from this address.
