Respecto a lo que se coment� el otro d�a (del a�o pasado) sobre el Tomcat y el WAS Express, IBM ya ha decidido lo que considera un "Low price":
SOME CALL FOR NEW WEBSPHERE PRICING http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/nwn/story.cfm?ID=15840 IBM's new WebSphere Express provides a less-expensive, entry-level version of Big Blue's Web application server, but some companies want a whole new modus operandi for pricing all WebSphere offerings to replace the per-CPU model. According to IBM, WebSphere Express is not only easy to deploy and manage, but also priced dramatically below competitive offerings. The new WebSphere Application Server Express is priced as low as $25 per user, for example, or $2,000 per processor when supporting an unlimited number of users. That's less than half the price of competitive products, according to IBM, and includes everything needed to build and deploy Web applications -- including the application server, development tools and templates, and support and maintenance. "IBM's come a long way with its pricing of WebSphere Express," says Charles Machalani, director of business development for Farabi. "It provides a per-user option, which is neat for someone looking to use the offering from a development point of view." When used for business-to-consumer processes, he says, paying per processor is typically the better route to take for starting to build JSP-based Web apps. "[The price] isn't steep for a small or medium company," Machalani says. "It's worth the investment if they want to sit down and explore the capabilities." But WebSphere Express is priced competitively mainly because of how it's positioned -- as a Web server for small and medium businesses that don't have a huge number of users accessing the software, and that don't require full business-to-business capabilities. That's different from the pricing of IBM's other WebSphere offerings, Machalani says, which gets muddled by multiple CPUs and crowds of users. "The rest of the WebSphere products have different types of licensing schemes," he says. "Some are user-based, some are concurrent user-based, some are CPU-based." That can become an issue for WebSphere users who require Host On-Demand (HOD) to plug into iSeries applications, for example. "Although WebSphere [licensing] is server-based, Host On-Demand is not," Machalani says. "Every concurrent user relying on HOD to get to the iSeries requires a license. Companies have to figure out how many Host On-Demand licenses are needed to accommodate, for example, 20 people hitting the Web server and using HOD to extract information from the iSeries." Even WebSphere Express users could run into some pricing pickles of their own. "If customers need to install the software on a dual CPU, or a four-way CPU, there's no guidelines," Machalani says. "Does that automatically mean that the customer has to pay two or four times $2,000? Those details are unknown." Generally speaking, however, WebSphere Express does address the pricing and functionality needs of small and medium companies that want to put a standard Web infrastructure in place. The next step for IBM to appease the masses would be to come up with some sort of similar, cost-effective solution for moving the other, more functional WebSphere products into small and medium companies. "The small partner that has a manufacturing system in place on its iSeries has to able to issue purchase orders electronically with a lot of different suppliers," Machalani says. "From a pricing point of view, IBM has to cater not just to big companies that can go out and buy an enterprisewide license for performing many different kinds of transactions. They have to cater also to the smaller and medium companies that want full function capabilities -- orchestration module, mapping, MQ integrator. They need a [pricing model] to help those companies put a solution in place cost effectively." -- Jill R. Aitoro, Industry Reporter, iSeries Network Vicente Garc�a Valero Departamento de sistemas Cer�mica SALONI S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yo ya soy un iSauri. Visita http://www.isauris.org _____________________________________________________ Forum.HELP400 es un servicio m�s de NEWS/400. � Publicaciones Help400, S.L. - Todos los derechos reservados http://www.help400.es _____________________________________________________ Para darte de baja, env�a el mensaje resultante de pulsar mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=LEAVE
