On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:42:16 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>At last, some common sense! Even in SAS-L there are complaints about costs.
>
>At the last site I worked at, I managed to justify SAS only because SAS
Institute intsituted sub-capacity licensing (finally).
>
>So, we ran it on a 128 MIPS 890 LPAR, for 35% of the previous licence for
the same box.

So you created, basically, a SAS-only LPAR? Yuck! Possible, but not what I'd
call desirable. Taken to a logical extreme, that would mean that I would
create "n" LPARs of various MSU levels and then run each product in the LPAR
which most closely matched its needs.

--
John

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