RE: LPAR licensing

[Lurton Keel <Lurton.Keel@xxxxxxxx>]

My experience with software licensing is you would pay for the software
based on the total size of the machine i.e. a license for a 4 processor
machine would be more (maybe not double) than a 2 processor machine.   So if
you were only going to run the software on a 2 processor LPAR (inside a
4-8-12 processor system) then you would actually being paying more than you
needed to.

I don't think this is bothering software vendors, I think they see it as an
opportunity to sell bigger licenses since IBM is planning to sell more
multiple processor machines.

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   therrin@isaac.net [SMTP:therrin@isaac.net]
        Sent:   Wednesday, March 24, 1999 6:40 PM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        LPAR licensing

        Along these same lines, I'm curious what the various vendors are
        planning to do regarding LPAR.  
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