Re: Vendor package pricing

I agree also. Especially for some of the simpler packages.
When I don't see a price it leads me to believe that no one ever pays
list. List is only there so they can charge some sort of industry norm of
x% of list for annual maintenance.

You should see it for those of us using multiple lpars on a single
machine. And then throw in that not all the lpars run IBM i.
Some of these vendors pricing schemes are so convoluted. This simple
package requires that you also buy this control module. Then they charge
a fee for whatever the number of CPU's you have allocated for IBM i across
all lpars on this box. Then they throw on a charge for each actual lpar
you run it on. Their logic being that CPU load balancing may adjust the
numbers and you'd steal from them or some such thing.

Now, you break down your lpars of IBM i into "shared processing pools".
Some vendors will accept this as a way of saying that only the lpars in
this shared processing pools will be using that software. Other vendors
don't care and base it by feature 5051 of 5770SS1 as shown with WRKLICINF.


Rob Berendt