On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:15 -0800, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 1/27/2012 7:51 AM, Al Sherkow wrote: >> ------------------------ >> Today, IBM® announces a price increase for the z/OS® operating system. >> Effective with the billing period that starts on or after April 1, 2012 the >> monthly license charges (MLC) will increase for the following program and >> its features: >> >> Program number Program name >> 5694-A01 z/OS® V1 >> ------------------------ > >Prices went up last year for various DB2 tools, QMF, DITTO, and other IBM >software effective July 1, 2011 (311-004) and there are some other price >increases coming in 2012. For example, prices for CICS/TS V3 are going up in >July (ZA11-1002). > >IBM's price increases are good news for competing ISVs that have been able to >hold the line on prices. They also come at a time when IBM has completely >eliminated the hardware Technology Dividend--which used to provide an automatic >10% discount--across the board--for all System z software priced in MSU. > >The times they are a changin'... Indeed they are. But who competes with IBM for mainframe OS? Linux? I suggest that IBM's price increases, partiuclarly for z/OS are anything but beneficial for anyone, including IBM, except *nix vendors, MS, and Apple. Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
