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Nice One
Jesse
I'm not sure which corporation you work for, and I dont think that really needs to be added to the thread. However we are paying >$5 per PVU for a basic client license and >$10 per PVU for the TDP License. We just 'renegotiated' to get these figures. Your figure sounds to me, more like the ongoing annual maintenance cost not the license cost.
If it is the initial license cost then I would love to get a ballpark idea of how many CPU cores or total PVU's you have in use for your negotiations. Oh and a vague Ideaa of your industry.
A few notes:
Based on this years published price list IBM now assigns more PVU per core for identical CPU cores on an 8 socket mother board vs one on a single or dual socket mother board. This is regardless of whether 7 of the sockets are empty.
When I looked at pricing during the early days of TSM 6.? it included yet another significant pricing per PVU uplift vs TSM5.5 for new licenses. Probably to pay for the 'Free' DB2 installation.
It is and always will be insane to charge for PVU's / CPU's etc when looking at backups. Thats like the electric company charging me for the number of appliances I have regardless of whether I use them or not.
I doubt anyone will ever accuse IBM of being easy to work with but this pricing model isn't just insane its Obscene.
Its not even my money and I hate being so blatently ripped off . Vent Over
SC.
Jesse
I'm not sure which corporation you work for, and I dont think that really needs to be added to the thread. However we are paying >$5 per PVU for a basic client license and >$10 per PVU for the TDP License. We just 'renegotiated' to get these figures. Your figure sounds to me, more like the ongoing annual maintenance cost not the license cost.
If it is the initial license cost then I would love to get a ballpark idea of how many CPU cores or total PVU's you have in use for your negotiations. Oh and a vague Ideaa of your industry.
A few notes:
Based on this years published price list IBM now assigns more PVU per core for identical CPU cores on an 8 socket mother board vs one on a single or dual socket mother board. This is regardless of whether 7 of the sockets are empty.
When I looked at pricing during the early days of TSM 6.? it included yet another significant pricing per PVU uplift vs TSM5.5 for new licenses. Probably to pay for the 'Free' DB2 installation.
It is and always will be insane to charge for PVU's / CPU's etc when looking at backups. Thats like the electric company charging me for the number of appliances I have regardless of whether I use them or not.
I doubt anyone will ever accuse IBM of being easy to work with but this pricing model isn't just insane its Obscene.
Its not even my money and I hate being so blatently ripped off . Vent Over
SC.