So then let me ask this question. Are the new 520's also subject to this
(being that it sits between 515 and 525 as far as literal numbers go)?
I think this will be a great COMMON question (like others have stated).
Hopefully somebody that is well spoken will step up to the mic and
articulate the question/frustration.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:26 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: 515 and 525 user licensing
This is pricing for 515 and 525 systems. The 550 and up systems still
license by CPU, not user..
The "count" is by authenticating user, however that authentication is done.
An authenticating user is a "real" person, in the flesh live body.
So, if you have a user profile that is used for securing objects but is not
related to a real person, that in not a "user" and doesn't require a User
Entitlement (UE). If you have a user prifile that is used to authenticate
to a database for connection purposes, that is not a real user and doesn't
require a UE. If you, personally have three user profiels for various
functions, that is ONE UE, not three. So a person requires a UE. Profiles
needed for other purposes don't require UE (the "Q" profiles being the most
notable).
Web access becomes a little more interesting and less intuitive to System i
(although Microsoft license users will be familiar with it).
Any user that authenticates to the System i to use System i resources (DB,
security, web services, etc) requires a UE, whether that is done through a
System i User Profile or an authentication mechanism that you built into
your application. If a *person* authenticates, however that is done, and
uses System i resources, then it requires a UE. Casual web serving, with no
authentication, requires no UE. The easiest way to handle external,
authenticated users who are NOT employees of your own company, is to buy the
external access license for $4000 which allows for unlimited access for
external authenticated users.
For the 515 you can purchase up to 40 UE's at $250/user. For the 525 you
can get an unlimited user license for $50k which would also cover the
external users.
Pete Helgren
Pat Barber wrote:
I think this is the "new" pricing method for ALL systems.
It is just a matter fo time.
One of the options in the annoucement was "unlimited", so for several
dollars more, you get unlimited.
albartell wrote:
Is this how ALL pricing will be done for ALL iSeries sales from now
on? (by user that is)
Or is it just for a select few models (what I am guessing).
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