Simon's description is correct. For those who don't have it readily to hand
I'll reiterate it here (in my own words):
We discontinued Express a while back; everybody on that edition got a free
upgrade to Standard.
Standard continues to be licensed on sockets. This has certain advantages
(clients and FPOs nodes are cheap, but as noted in the thread if you need to
change them to servers, they get more expensive)
Advanced was retired; those already on it were "grandfathered in" can continue
to buy it, so no forced conversion. But no new customers.
In place of Advanced, Data Management Edition is licensed by the TiB. This has
the advantage of simplicity -- it is completely flat regardless of topology. It
also allows you to add and subtract nodes, including clients, or change a
client node to a server node, at will without having to go through a licensing
transaction or keep count of clients or pay a penalty for putting clients in a
separate compute cluster or ...
BTW, I'll be at the UG in London and (probably) in Boston, if anybody wants to
talk licensing...
Carl Zetie
Offering Manager for Spectrum Scale, IBM
(540) 882 9353 ][ Research Triangle Park
[email protected]
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