Re: Pricing of Software Licenses

2009-05-06 Thread Walter Marguccio
From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Subject: Re: Pricing of Software Licenses I've had success with vendors You have to be resolved to be willing to drop the product. We were. Low revenue is better than no revenue, as far as a vendor is concerned. I agree 100%. Unfortunately it also depends

Re: Pricing of Software Licenses

2009-05-06 Thread Hal Merritt
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Pricing of Software Licenses From: Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Subject: Re: Pricing of Software Licenses I've had success with vendors You have to be resolved to be willing to drop the product. We were. Low revenue is better than no revenue, as far as a vendor

Re: Pricing of Software Licenses

2009-05-05 Thread Hal Merritt
OEM software venders will agree to the reduced prices. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jacky Bright Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 9:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Pricing of Software Licenses Yes. We do have

Re: Pricing of Software Licenses

2009-05-05 Thread Scott T. Harder
-m...@bama.ua.edu]on Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 6:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Pricing of Software Licenses The applicability of sub capacity pricing is a pretty complex issue. Usually software is priced in MIP or MSU ranges so you'd have to figure out what your

Re: Pricing of Software Licenses

2009-05-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
IMVHO... the software vendors (most of them) have not embraced SCP for the simple reason that they can get more of your money the old fashioned way. That's all I have to say on this subject. I've had success with vendors: 1. SAS Institute -- we were one of the few shops that didn't have the

Re: Pricing of Software Licenses

2009-05-01 Thread Jacky Bright
Yes. We do have sub-capacity pricing, but to generate SCRT report we need Type 70 records for which either CMF or RMF Required. So its necessary to have RMF or CMF. Now that this topic has come up its worth discussing pricing of softwares. I have a question here. If your utilisation is