Yea. My manager got that. But he said it was slightly different. We got hit __immediately__ with no prior warning. Blew the software budget for 2012. Helped us lose more people, too. Luckily, at the same time as this price increase, we decreased our MSUs and so our "hit" is not as bad as it could have been. I guess somebody needed to justify their bonus. Yes, I'm very cynical. "It's not your father's IBM!". There's a reason that I'm now a Penguinista.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Bowler > Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS > > For some reason, this announcement doesn't seem to have made > it into the IBM press release page at > http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/index.wss: > > Announcement Letter Number ZA11-1053 (Europe Middle East and Africa): > > "Effective April 1, 2012 the price of IBM z/OS Version 1 will > increase. Prices for these recurring charges (MLC) will > increase between 5 % and 6% on average depending on the > pricing metric. Average VWLC and AWLC increase for a 500 MSU > configuration will be around 6%. This pricing announcement > does not apply to Entry Workload License Charges (EWLC), > Advanced Entry Workload License Charges (AEWLC) or Flat > Workload License Charges (FWLC)." > > See > http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ss > i/rep_ca/3/877/ENUSZA11-1053/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en > > This is in addition to price increases (IBM call them "price > changes") of up to 23% on certain IPLA programs announced in > ZA11-1061 effective April 1, 2012, which come on top of the > 4% - 5% increase for many WebSphere, IMS, and DB2 products > effective Jan 1, 2011 (ZA10-1052). > > Regards, > Roger Bowler > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
