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This is pricing for 515 and 525 systems. The 550 and up systems still
license by CPU, not user..
The "count" is by authenticating user, however that authentication is
done. An authenticating user is a "real" person, in the flesh live body.
So, if you have a user profile that is used for securing objects but is
not related to a real person, that in not a "user" and doesn't require a
User Entitlement (UE). If you have a user prifile that is used to
authenticate to a database for connection purposes, that is not a real
user and doesn't require a UE. If you, personally have three user
profiels for various functions, that is ONE UE, not three. So a person
requires a UE. Profiles needed for other purposes don't require UE (the
"Q" profiles being the most notable).
Web access becomes a little more interesting and less intuitive to
System i (although Microsoft license users will be familiar with it).
Any user that authenticates to the System i to use System i resources
(DB, security, web services, etc) requires a UE, whether that is done
through a System i User Profile or an authentication mechanism that you
built into your application. If a *person* authenticates, however that
is done, and uses System i resources, then it requires a UE. Casual web
serving, with no authentication, requires no UE. The easiest way to
handle external, authenticated users who are NOT employees of your own
company, is to buy the external access license for $4000 which allows
for unlimited access for external authenticated users.
For the 515 you can purchase up to 40 UE's at $250/user. For the 525
you can get an unlimited user license for $50k which would also cover
the external users.
Pete Helgren
Pat Barber wrote:
I think this is the "new" pricing method for ALL systems.
It is just a matter fo time.
One of the options in the annoucement was "unlimited", so
for several dollars more, you get unlimited.
albartell wrote:
Is this how ALL pricing will be done for ALL iSeries sales from now on? (by
user that is)
Or is it just for a select few models (what I am guessing).
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