IBM is doing a webcast on Getting Started Sub-capacity Pricing for z/OS
IPLA Software on Wednesday. Here is the link a
href=http://ibm.com/software/systemz/webcast/30apr/;
http://ibm.com/software/systemz/webcast/30apr//a
Al Sherkow
Consulting Expertise on Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning,
: Explaining the New IBM Getting Started WebSphere Pricing
Announcement
I thought I'd try to perform a public service to help educate everyone on
IBM's new pricing announcement on April 22, 2008. (Demystifying software
pricing seems to be one of my unofficial missions in life.) First, the
headline
--snip---
Are the individuals who come up with IBM pricing the same ones that
'help' our congress write the tax laws?
-unsnip--
NOBODY who actually works for a living could possibly be THAT
convoluted! :-)
Timothy --
Thanks for the nice explanation.
Besides using SCRT the site also most be sub-capacity for IPLA. This is a
separate agreement with IBM. If you take a snapshot today of your
environment to determine if you should use Sub-Capacity IPLA the answer will
likely be that you cannot save any
So if I read this right, these products will actually record how many
MSU's they are using in a given LPAR and we will be charged for the max
concurrent 4HR MSU (converted to VU) for the product across all LPARs.
The only real difference from VWLC is that I need to be licensed for the
most I will
Al Sherkow wrote:
This is my opinion only. IBM is doing this to make these WebSphere products
more attractive for implementation on zSeries. Why not make these straight
VWLC? well lots of sites have bought value units and don't want to pay
monthly for these again.
This is a guess, because the
I thought I'd try to perform a public service to help educate everyone on
IBM's new pricing announcement on April 22, 2008. (Demystifying software
pricing seems to be one of my unofficial missions in life.) First, the
headline: this announcement is *unambiguously good news* for customers:
nobody
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