Re: Hardware tiers

Hi, Rob:
Yes, and that's but one of many possible "scenarios."
This problem was amplified when software vendors started charging based on the number of cores or based on model and processor feature, not based on official IBM i "processor group" (P05, P10, P20, P30, P40 or P50). 

Suppose you have a P20 that is partitioned into multiple smaller LPARs -- should software that runs only in a small LPAR be charged only a P05 tier price, since that software cannot possibly use 100% of the resources of the P20 "host" system?  Today many software vendors will charge the "full price" for the P20 system, and even worse, many vendors also want to charge that same full price, all over again, for each LPAR, if you want to run their software in more than one LPAR. 

And, with Moore's Law and CPU speeds doubling every 18 months, P05 systems today (Power7/8/9) are far more powerful than any P50 iSeries system of a decade or so ago.  So,even trying to price based on just that processor group gets "ugly" in a hurry.
Just saying ...

Mark S. Waterbury


On Tuesday, December 11, 2018, 1:29:19 PM EST, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mark,

You do bring up an interesting thought.

Let's say this poster from a thread earlier today used this software.  I'm
talking about the guy who just asked about migrating to cloud.  Now, he is
a one man shop, from a smaller tight fisted company.  He gets the
migration all approved only to find out that the service provider is
running a top tier model and tier pricing will not only cancel the
migration but will get him terminated.
And, who knows, maybe there are already three or four other clients on
that same hosting machine all running the same software already paying top
tier pricing?  I'm sure that's confidential information that the service
provider has no desire to cooperate on.


Rob Berendt