Re: new serial with V7R1?

[Glenn Hopwood <ghopwood.list@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this... I'll have to check it out. This may make our decision 
easier.

Glenn

On 2/15/2011 10:41 AM, Dan wrote:
> IBM United States Software Announcement 211-021  February 8, 2011
> which includes:
> "IBM i license transfer -- Clients can now pay IBM for the right, in
> certain situations, to transfer the IBM i operating system from one
> system serial number to a different system serial number within the same
> enterprise for POWER5, POWER6, and POWER7 models with IBM i operating
> system per user pricing."
>
> I haven't seen the pricing for this - check with your Business Partner.
>
> Good luck!  - Dan R.
>
>
> On 2/15/2011 10:12 AM, Glenn Hopwood wrote:
> > That's what we were told by our BP. They said if we wanted to keep our
> > serial number we had to order a Power 6 machine by sometime in May and
> > keep it for at least 60 days before we could get a Power 7 machine.
> >
> > Or, we could get a Power 7 machine with a new serial number and
> > re-purchase the OS.
> >
> > So our choices are; order an extra machine that we won't use for more
> > the a couple of months or re-purchase the OS. Seems kind of shady to me.
> >
> > Glenn