Re: LPAR licensing

Terry Herrin wrote:

> Along these same lines, I'm curious what the various vendors are
> planning to do regarding LPAR.  For instance, right now one of our
> machines is an S20 with two processors.  With LPAR I could turn it
> into two smaller AS/400's.  I assume that each of these logical
> machines would have the same serial number?  That means I can now run
> two instances of a licensed product where before I could run only one.
> If the vendor software allows me to do this, then depending on the
> cost of the software, I could come out much cheaper buying one large
> AS/400 and partitioning it in two instead of buying two smaller
> equivalent AS/400's with different serial numbers.  You could take
> this even further with a 4-way and four logical machines.  Actually,
> the hardware cost might be cheaper too, but the savings on the
> software could really add up to a tremendous amount.
>

Don't worry. Software vendors will undoubtedly (unfortunately) come up with many
new and creative ways of gouging, er, uh....charging AS/400 customers for their
software, regardless of how many logical partions you run it on.

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