>I would say that if it were not for MSU based billing, everybody would be >happy with just getting a new CP and having the excess just sitting around. >In this case, the upgrade cost would only be the cost of a CP. >But with tiered software costs, adding a new CP has financial considerations >beyond the cost to acquire and maintain the CP. >Especially if you have software which does not support sub-capacity billing.
I've been carping about this since IBM introduced tiered pricing in 1984-5. It's made capacity planning difficult for 25+ years. PS: Please bear with me as I get used to my touch-screen BlackBerry 9800 (Torch). My fat fingers have hit the send icon a few times and sent blanks. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
