Hi Ricky,

what do you want to do? Register some additional nodes? Then you've got to
buy new licenses. They are now sold on a per cpu base and the price depends
if you are using the base version of TSM or the extended version and your
company's Passport Advantage level at IBM. Lower level customers (i.e.
level A) with less IBM software licenses paid per year pay more than
customers that buy a lot of IBM software licenses. But even in the lowest
category 391 pounds are a lot of money. We don't sell TSM licenses at such
a high price... :-)

If you wan't to keep the number of registered nodes by adding and deleting
some nodes then you can do that. Just count the number of CPUs from the
nodes you are deleting and register new nodes to the extend of that number.

TSM licensing is a very complex theme and everytime IBM changes the
procedures there are many open questions that nobody can/will answer. In
theory everything seems to be very easy but in reality there are a lot of
hooks and problems. Talk to 5 different people at IBM and you will get 7
different answers... But at least you can say "Hey, that is what you (IBM)
told me..." :-)

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With best regards,
Bien amicalement,

CU/2,
                Dirk Billerbeck


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"Cahill, Ricky" <Ricky.Cahill AT EQUITAS.CO DOT UK>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 19.03.2003
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Just got a quote back for some Win2k licenses and was rather surprised at
the massive increase in price, ok I've not bought a license for a couple of
years but this is bonkers..

single processor server         £391.98 + vat per server
dual processor server           £783.96 + vat per server
quad processor server           £1567.92 + vat per server

Anyone know if a license bought prior to this stupid per cpu idea is valid
for one server or one cpu??


       ..........Rikk


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