Another thought on changing vendors is this. If IBM really is cranking up the maintenance price in general, then the competitors will follow soon after, maybe not as much but close.
Follow the herd mentality. David Longo >>> "Conway, Timothy" <timothy.con...@jbssa.com> 2/24/2009 5:14 PM >>> AS far as I know, there was no audit. The "audit tool" is about as worthless as it could be without being actually harmful. You'd think all the clients could return CPU type, count, and IDs and have a complete answer right there in the TSM server. Over the past couple years, we've greatly shrunk our number of physical servers, so we know it's fewer CPUs than we originally bought for. I wish I had more of a role in this than "This is what we must have done. Make it happen". -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bell, Charles (Chip) Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 3:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Alternatives to TSM I thought the audit was so last year... Is it making a comeback? :) ##################################### This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain private, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. #####################################