Re: Vendor package pricing

In the case of TLI their pricing is PER LPAR no matter how much or little the customer uses it. 1 Trading partner with one translation one transaction a month or millions of each. Full install and training price and full price on maintenance, Per LPAR. Customers who want to break their machine into LPARS by timezone for example would need four full copies of TLI just to cover the continental US. As a consequence nobody does that because the cost is just too high. And thus their statement that "we are not seeing LPARs" is correct but it's a result of their pricing model!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 8/23/2017 7:30 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 5:32 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have personally called them and spoken to higher ups in sales and they
think their pricing makes perfect sense. They told me: "You exaggerate this
virtualization thing, almost NONE of our customers are doing that." My
response: "Of course not with YOUR Software because your pricing is inane!

Not sure what type of customer they are dealing with. I have seen a
lot of my customers moving to hosted lpars.

Now if I could just get them to stop the ones who aren't going to
hosted partitions from "upgrading" to V7R1 (per their business partner
of course.. lol).

Bradley V. Stone
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