3rd party software pricing policies

Not ALL 3rd party software pricing policies do this.
We have NEVER charged extra to load our software on more then one partition.
All of our software is licensed to a serial number and if you are under
software support and maintenance there is no charge when you upgrade your
hardware.

So I would recommend companies look into these type of pricing policies
before they purchase. If enough companies would stop purchasing software
with those types of pricing policies you will see a change.



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Musselman, Paul
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 6:45 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Adding a partition to our 270

Lukas Beeler wrote (in small part):
"[Insert three page long rant about IBMs pricing policies]"

Don't forget the equally-long rant about 3rd party software pricing
policies! More than 1 partition and the prices are charged per
partition! (:

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Lukas also wrote:
"If you need it really cheap, look about old Power 5 520s going back.
They can run V7R1 and V6R1, which the 270 can't."

How cheap is 'really cheap? I'm thinking of something for personal
use/experimentation.

Paul E Musselman