Re: SALC pricing for MQ

2008-04-17 Thread Al Sherkow
You are both right, but you're missing point of IBM's SALC metric. There are still quite a few sites that cannot save money with IBM's Sub-Capacity pricing. You are currently paying ULC (Usage License Charge) or MULC (Measured Usage License Charges) probably along with PSLC (Parallel Sysplex Licens

Re: SALC pricing for MQ

2008-04-17 Thread John Giltner
Rob Wunderlich wrote: We license MQ V5 on MLC for about 2k/month. We have very little MQ activity, so we are looking at changing this to SALC (usage based) to save money. The quote from IBM for 1 MSU, the lowest band, is 10k/month! This doesn't make sense based on our experience with other usag

SALC pricing for MQ

2008-04-17 Thread Rob Wunderlich
We license MQ V5 on MLC for about 2k/month. We have very little MQ activity, so we are looking at changing this to SALC (usage based) to save money. The quote from IBM for 1 MSU, the lowest band, is 10k/month! This doesn't make sense based on our experience with other usage based products. We'v