Re: LPAR pricing gouge

LPAR pricing is interesting.

IBM does not charge by processor (in theory), but then had to do it for
Websphere, because they were having trouble selling it.

IBM does provide an API for vendors to figure out what partition they are
in, but from my experience most software vendors do not charge a premium
per partition.  Notable exceptions generally include Showcase and Help
Systems.

Al

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Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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We are checking with our vendor software to see what, if any, action needs
to be taken if we LPAR.

None of the vendor software will be run on more than one LPAR.

I ASSUMED that since most vendors (websphere excluded) don't charge by
number of processors, etc that it would be simple and no change would be
required.  Hey, S/N, model, etc all stay the same, right?

Now I found out that the barcode software TL Ashford will charge us an
additional $1,400 just to LPAR our machine.  Even though we will only be
running it on one partition.  And this partition is what currently runs on
the entire machine.  The boss evidently is going to fork over the bucks
and eat it.

Any other LPAR pricing horror stories?

Rob Berendt
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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