RE: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer - pricing is server based! -- MIDRANGE-L

I am of the understanding that IP Designer is $6995 list price and is
server based not workstation based.  I've confirmed this with both my
business partner and IBM iSeries representative.

"Infoprint Designer is a client-server product which has a single charge
unit. The charge unit is the number of installed licenses of the
product. Only one license can be installed on a single iSeries Server."

Product ID  . . . . . . . . :   5733ID1                          
License term  . . . . . . . :   V4R5M0                           
Feature . . . . . . . . . . :   5050                             
Description . . . . . . . . :   IBM Infoprint Designer for AS/400
                                                                 
Compliance type . . . . . . :   *KEYED                           
Usage type  . . . . . . . . :   *CONCURRENT                      
                                                                 
Usage limit . . . . . . . . :   *NOMAX                           
Last update . . . . . . . . :   03/05/04  08:00:56               
                                                                 
Threshold . . . . . . . . . :   *NOMAX                           

I'm not sure where people are getting the idea of $5000 per workstation.
$6995 might still be salty for someone wanting to not do a lot but it's
definitely cheaper than $10,000 or $15,000 or $20,000 or $25,000 that
some people might think it will cost them.


Michael Crump
 
Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN  47302
765.741.7696
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:10 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Looking for alternative to Infoprint Designer

1 - Wasn't there just a discussion in the last couple of days on the
cost 
of Infoprint Designer and having the per seat pricing all wrong?
2 - I agree that Infoprint designer should be part and parcel of WDSC. 
Submit a Design Change Request.
There are a lot of things that are two broken apart.  Some parts of
i5/os 
sound to me like descriptions of mainframe OS and DB software on other 
platforms - a bunch of pick and choose rigamarole.  Why is facsimile 
Support/400 a separate package and not just part of i5/os?  Isn't that 
included in the OS on many other platforms?  Maybe if they included it 
with the OS the support would be better.  What other part of the OS do
you 
call for support on and ALWAYS are put into a call back queue regardless

of the time of day?

Rob Berendt