Hi, Just wondering if anyone had to to any of the previous seminars?
Was it worthwhile? Kind Regards, Mark Negotiating mainframe software and hardware contracts Arcati¹s annual seminar on mainframe pricing and contract negotiation takes place on 28th June 2010 at the Premier Inn Touchbase Centre, London Heathrow. As always, the principal speaker is Barry Graham, an internationally recognised authority on mainframe pricing issues. Working with Barry, users with as few as 600 MIPS and as much as 100,000 MIPS have signed contracts saving up to 30% of their expected spend. This year Barry will be joined by David Wilson, independent consultant and former IBM senior executive for System z Software in North East Europe, who will be focusing on what users should do to maximise the benefits of their current mainframe installations. Sessions at the seminar include: * Putting software costs in context * New pricing models and future costs * Negotiating an IBM ESSO or ELA contract * Maximising the benefit of mainframes * Hardware pricing update The programme covers pricing for all z10 Enterprise and Business Class systems, and also includes discussion of Passport Advantage, Processor Value Units, and their effect on software price/performance. For full details, go to http://www.arcati.com/mmevent10. For further information on the Mainframe Market Information Service go to http://www.arcati.com/mmis Arcati Limited Tel: +44(0)7717 858284 Email: [email protected] Web: www.arcati.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
