All licensing terms for intellectual property are inherently arbitrary. When I owned a (mainframe) software company I struggled with licensing terms that would provide us with enough revenue to make a profit, and which would make our software affordable for small shops, without leaving on the table the large shop money we needed to pay our programmers and continue to thrive.
Customers inevitably accused of us being unfair and arbitrary because we charged more money in one situation than another, or charged extra for the usage of features that were present in any event in all versions of our product. At the risk of being unpopular here on this forum, I would say you have flexibility: you have the flexibility to license z/OS.e if its Ts&Cs suit your needs, or full z/OS if they do not. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: limited Numbers of TSO users on z/OS.e Why must we jump through these hoops? I understand there are T&C's required for these 'discounts', but they seem arbitrary. If I have a small-end z/890, why should I have to create a second LPAR just to have more than 8 TSO users? Paying a little more for extra users makes more sense. We do not want to cheat IBM; we just want flexibility. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
