>From my crude understanding that could be WAY off, is that full retail cost of a point is about $32USD (and is probably different, so YMMV). Most people get a discount of some type if you go through a VAR or have some other reason (like IBM wants to make a sale).
Basically, points are used as a way to price. And the discount come rather than wrangling about components you get for 'free', you wrangle about the cost per 'point'. So everyone must purchase so many points. Just what you pay for them is up for discussion. Just another way to slice the same pie. Confusing? yep. But pricing of most other things is confusing too. What gripes me is that you enter license by number of this and that you are license for, and not just here are x points, use them till they are up. There isn't even a easy standard way to audit to say 'go buy xxx more points', or 'you have x points, y points are consumed, z points are not in current use' Such is life. -----Original Message----- From: Orin Rehorst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Port of Houston Authority (Largest U.S. port in foreign tonnage) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (713)670-2443 Fax: (713)670-2457 TOPAS web site: <www.homestead.com/topas/topas.html>
