Re: CPU Percentage Flex, Lies, and Usage Measuring Tape

At 05:44 PM 7/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>  For all practical purposes, IBM withdrew user based pricing years ago!
>>  First of all, it was never enforced, and secondly it was withdrawn on the
>>  biggest hitter products long ago.  Although user based pricing is was we
>>  (the user community) asked IBM for, it was exactly what we asked for, and
>>  it probably was a mistake.  I think before we pass jusgement on IBM, we
>>  need to see the new model structure, and how it lays on top of the tier
>>  structure.
>
>Well, just drops my confidence level another notch in my current source of
>information.  I was urged to order my new box prior to the announcements,
>because the licensing would hurt small shops more than large ones.

Technically, your source should know nothing.  All I am reporting here is
the scuttlebut that the industry is bantering about.

Al



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