Bear in mind, a lot of the discount options depend on how much you are going to spend with IBM/Tivoli. Myself, we got a normal corp. discount (something not as good as Education discounts, but something along the same lines)... plus the passport advantage discount, plus another discount on top of that... all because we were buying a lot of stuff at the time.
Those numbers that IBM/Tivoli give you are just where they like to start the negotating process. If you are looking to buy other IBM/Tivoli things (even some business partner stuff that IBM resells)... Hardware, Software, etc. you can factor all that into some bigger discounts normally. -dnr -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joel Fuhrman Sent: October 24, 2001 6:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Educational Licencing Question I believe that IBM is no longer the doing HESC, Higher Education Software Consortium, program which gave software to educational organizations. Since my group handles the administrative (non-student) computing on campus, we didn't qualify for HESC. However, our Tivoli Value Added Reseller was able to order the Tivoli Data Protection products for us using the Passport Advantage program, which offers deeply discounted prices. That program may have been terminated this year; but since I haven't bought anything I'm not sure. Maybe with the keywords, HESC and Passport Advantage, you might be able to get some information on your licensing. You said you don't have an IBM contact, which is ok, since you need a contact from Tivoli or one of their VARs. On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Stephen A. Cochran wrote: > We started using ADSM back when it was included in IBM's campus software package > (also long before this was in my hands, so no first hand knowledge). Does anyone > know if IBM still includes TSM in the campus software package, or even where to > find out what our current licencing status is? We don't have a contact at IBM. > > Steve Cochran > Dartmouth College >
