First a question, how has this value based pricing been received by the
industry?  Is TSM still price competitive in it's market space?  Does it
have to be this confusing?

I just got a system quote and I'm shocked.  We are a small shop, mostly
IBM software and hardware.  This was going to be a no-brainer, we were
just going to expand our current TSM installation.   I'm glad we are not
so deeply invested in TSM that we can't consider a vendor change.

It is almost like Tivoli does not want to sell this software.