Re: TAATOOL Pricing and PRTLIBANL

Bruce,

Why not buy one version for the lowest OS-release? This should also run on
the newest releases.

With regards,
Carel Teijgeler


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On 26-8-2008 at 11:08 Bruce Collins wrote:

Well I just got off the phone with TAATOOL and I am so confused.

We have a 570-7474 (P40) with 6 partitions. 4 are V5R4 and 2 are V5R3.

Direct from their web site I Quote "LPAR systems are considered a single

system, (no extra charge per partition). No DSLO offering exists." And

this statement is somewhat correct.

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If I go with the V5R4 and P40 it should cost me 7700.00 USD but it will

not work with the two partions running V5R3. The sales person said I

should by the V5R3 version for 6900.00 USD for the V5R3 version and then

pay 2100.00 USD to upgrade the other partitions to V5R4 of TAATOOL which

the price is now 9000.00 USD. I explain that this is a new license and

since I was going to purchase the V5R4 version why should I pay the

2100.00 USD for the down version when the new license difference is only

800.00 USD between V5R4 and V5R3.

His answer was that the way it is.

Are their other tools that would give me similar information ast the

PRTLIBANL of TAATOOL.