Thanks Len -
Yeah, I saw those charts - and I read the first one as "sample product" at
2/100/200/400 points; the second I read as "product 5698-TSM Tivoli Storage
Manager" "Feature code 1685 (for quantity 1)" "Feature code 1686 (for
quantity 250)". As an aside, can I see a show of hands as to how many of us
will be implementing 250 TSM servers in our organizations?
Or do I need an actual logon ID for IBMLink to get to some other document?
Which, of course brings up the question of where to get such a logon ID --
my IBM rep is due in today, I can always beat him up :-)
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Boyle [mailto:SNOLEN AT VM.SAS DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:26 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: TSM 4.1 announcement & pricing change
>
>
> In article
> <BABA1898D52ED4119F8400D0B76FEA2233382E@WHQ_EXCHANGE_2>, "Kauffman,
> Tom" <KauffmanT AT NIBCO DOT COM> says:
> >
> >Am I missing something here? I've been working my way through the
> >announcement letter (200-245) on 4.1 where "Tivoli
> introduces Value-Based
> >Pricing model. . ." and I can't find any *detail* on the new pricing.
> >
> >There's no list of points per feature or per server, and
> nothing to indicate
> >what the points per dollar (or, more likely, dollars per
> point) will be. Is
> >this because the model isn't fully refined yet? Or is this
> intentional?
> >
> >Tom Kauffman
> >NIBCO, Inc
>
> Hello Tom
>
> If you have access to an IBMLINK userid, the price per point
> is listed.
>
> In the public ann letter on www.ibmlink.ibm.com,
> there is a chart for the number of points for each of four types
> of platforms. For software it lists as 2 points for a client class
> of machine and 100 for a tier one server and 200 points for a tier 2
> and 400 points for tier3 server.
>
>
> Later they have a set of feature codes for buying one and 250 points
> of tsm base server
> tsm lan support
> tsm san support
> tsm library sharing
> The adsm/tsm open system feature (used for afs and/or os/390 hfs] is
> no longer.I think that each hfs client machine requires the tsm lan
> feature uner the new scheme.
>
> But I see no feature code for a tsm client user feature. Does this
> mean that they no longer will be charging extra for clients.
> Except for the agent client which are now separate products.
> And appear to cost a lot more if installed on a server class machine.
> But if installed on a client machine it appears that they are a lot
> cheaper. (backup agents for db2, ms exchange, ms sql, oracle etc).
>
> So it appears that a single server entry cost has increased
> over three fold, That a medium sized server may be cheaper.
> But if you have the server installed on a large server with
> connections to a number of libraries and you have a large number
> of client agents then you could end of paying more.
>
> Can anyone From Tivoli ask the marketing manager shine some light
> on the new method of charging. Also we map our old software
> licenses to the new scheme at the end of our current license
> period.
>
>
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