The point system was a relative value for a component residing on a machine
with of 1 of 3 tiers.

Forty Points is a tier 1 NT system, 4 or less CPUs, for Exchange.
The 275 is a mixture of Server and client code I am guessing.

Your quote will make sense if you get the input numbers and the points for
each component.

The nice part is the points system is going away, the bad part is the new
replacement, CPU based, is even more confusing.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:rehorst AT POHA DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:37 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: IBM quote


The point system IBM uses for pricing is confusing.

A quote has 40 points shown for the Exchange protect agent maintenance, 275
points for the TSM server component maintenance.

Do these points represent a quantity of one each?



Regards,
Orin

Orin Rehorst
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(Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage)
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