We saw this pricing conundrum as well. We were moving from an 810 to a
520, same tier machines. The leasing company wanted 19K for the 810 and
we were considering the prospect of keeping it and making it a
development/DR box.
When Inovis dropped a figure on us of several thousand more than the
19K, we really started getting serious about buying our old 810. After
realizing that they may wind up with nothing Inovis gave us LPAR
pricing, which was less than half the cost of the 810, for the move from
one box to another.
It was still more money than we wanted to pay for the same
functionality. Inovis got their pound of flesh and I get to retell this
story any time it comes up;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Carpenter
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:10 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: is edi translator software difficult to write? was: edi
vendorcomplaining
rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Actually, back in the days of the AS/400, EDI, with it's extremely
intensive string manipulation, could really be a load on the machine.
This type of work load saw the most dramatic performance improvement
with the switch to RISC.
The tier pricing problem was with us back then too. I was at one shop,
where it was cheaper to buy a small model 400 (RISC replacement for
model 200) just to run Premenos (TrustedLink) rather than run it on a
larger system (5xx model) at the time.
Would have made more sense to license (and limit) by transaction volume.
Then let you run it on whatever box you want.
Keith
midrange.com
