Re:AS/400 upgrade - JBA licence fee

[jpeterman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I can understand your confusion over the licensing issue. 

Given the history of System 21 sales in Australia, I can confirm that your 
only protection against having to buy additional licences when performing 
hardware upgrades, is likely to be in the original contract that you 
negotiated. I can't answer for the protection this contract offers under 
the new GEAC regime.

The 'by the book' method for JBA licensing, not very often adhered to if 
they wanted to win the business, is based on a minimum number of users for 
a particular processor and costed across all modules installed by the 
total number of users ie. NOT the number of users for any particular 
module eg. 4 x General Ledger users only. 

Some Examples are listed below:-

AS400 
9402    Model 400       2130    15 users
                        2131    25
                        2132    35
                        2133    45
9406    Model 500       2140    35
                        2141    45
                        2142    55
        Model 510       2143    70
                        2144    95
        Model 520       2150    120
                        2151    170
                        2152    230
                        2153    320
                        2162    370
        Model 600       2129    20
                        2134    30
                        2135    45
                        2136    55
        Model 620       2179    60
                        2180    85
                        2181    170
                        2182    250
        Model S20       2161    70
                        2163    100
                        2165    180
                        2166    250
When the new 720 family was introduced there were no new matrices provided 
and the instruction was to look to the comparable CPW IBM performance 
rating to find the nearest older model minimum user count.

It should comes as no surprise that GEAC plan to enforce this methodology 
whenever possible to bolster licensing revenue outside of new sales 
opportunities.
 
Hope this at least answers some questions even though it does not provide 
any definitive solutions to your concerns. 

John Peterman

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