Ted MacNEIL wrote:
...
MSU values are reported by the hardware. MIPS values aren't. That single
difference makes MIPS inherently less useful than MSU
...
Since IBM changed the billing algorithms for MSU, that makes MIPS les useful
than a useless number for MSU.
Not useless at all! Suppose you have a licensing agreement that limits
the capacity of the hardware environments on which a software product is
licensed to run. If that agreement is written using MSU terminology,
then a (fairly) simple query of the hardware lets both the software
product and the customer know if the environment is compliant.
Customers generally prefer software that can help them ensure the terms
and conditions of their license agreements are being met. Such software
helps customers avoid liability and breach of contract issues. For
capacity-based licenses, hardware reporting of serial numbers, LPAR
names, and capacity (in MSU) makes that possible!
My point was simply that no similar capability exists for MIPS, making
"MIPS inherently less useful than MSU -- all other things being equal."
The validity of that statement should be obvious. It's hardly arguable.
Just because the hardware reports it doesn't make it valid.
It's valid for the intended purpose so long as the number being reported
matches the published number. If you don't like the published number for
certain models, take it up with IBM. That's completely tangential to my
point.
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