Re: The death of CFINT?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Guess that goes to show you that IBM feels that the EE package is a great 
deal, and for the software other than just unlimited 5250.  For a company 
like us that:
- is using TSM
- has BRMS
- is using Sametime
- is using Quickplace
- is using the SQL development kit, (but not on the 840 yet)
- is interested in Websphere (for BPCS reasons)
- is using performance tools
...
This might be true.  But for others...

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




"Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
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Okay, IBM actually does have a pricing book out.  It ain't easy to read, 
but
it's there.  After some hashing, I managed to make some sense out of it.
MCPress allows HTML posts, and the numbers are much easier to read in a
table, so you may want to look at this post I just made at MC Press:

http://www.mcpressonline.com/mc?14@38.1gX5ackc6vE.167628@.6ae58d41

It shows in lurid detail just how much the "Enterprise Edition" costs. And
it's a VERY interesting story; at the top end of the spectrum (the P50
range), the EE only costs about 75%.  But as you get smaller, the number
jumps - to nearly 700%!  Ain't THAT a kick in the head?

The news of the death of CFINT has been greatly exaggerated, folks.  It
ain't dead, it's just bundled, and the smaller you are, the bigger the
bundle.  So IBM is basically telling small companies to get web-enabled.
Today.

Anywho, the following is the URL for the pricing guide:

http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usalets&parms=H_103-002

This is a summary page.  At the top are links for PDF and PostScript
versions of the actual document.

Joe

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