On Friday, 06/15/2007 at 02:33 MST, "Stricklin, Raymond J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody on the list help me understand IBM's position that RSCS is > becoming a $20k extra cost licensed program at z/VM 5.3?
It moves from an monthly license charge (hundreds to thousands a month) to a one-time charge ($1K per value unit), plus an annual maintenence fee ($250/VU). For a 2-CPU system that turns out to be $20K OTC, plus $5K/yr for maintenence. The free part of RSCS remains free. Of course, you also get licensing for IFLs. Whether that's a good deal or not depends on how much you are paying now for the MLC. You can calculate how many months of MLC it takes to equal the OTC, and then whether your MLC x 12 is more than the new maintenence fee. You can further calculate your savings over 3, 5, 7, 10 years, whatever. Oh, and it may not be immediately obvious, but moving from an MLC-based product to OTC requires extra budgeting to ensure the OTC funds and first year's maintenence are available. RSCS V3R2 (5684-096) was recently announced to go out of service with z/VM 5.2 in April '09. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
