On May 22, 2007, at 5:51 PM, Schneider, John wrote:

        Is IBM listening, I hope?  IBM's licensing strategy should be
greatly simplified, or based on something that the TSM client itself
could track and report.

It absolutely should!
Here is a major technology company, telling its customers to go
conduct a manual audit of hundreds of client systems throughout every
customer establishment, as though it's 1975 again.  For a company
doing things like Autonomic Computing, this is a *major* failure in
technology deployment, for which IBM should be dragged over the coals
by the management of the victim customer sites being subjected to
this astounding nonsense.

   Richard Sims