Edward Jaffe wrote:
Ed Gould wrote:
So,..... The bigger you are the more JCL errors you have? ... hmmmm I
don't think so.
It's likely that a bigger company, with a bigger IT staff, will submit
more jobs and experience more JCL errors.
I don't see correspondence between JCL errors and pricing model, but my
example - debugger on one LPAR (no growth) and growing production is
real one. There are more examples like that, i.e. some company tries to
charge job scheduler per job being scheduled. As an alternative they
purpose per MIPS price. I know company which grew up from 100 MIPS to
1800 MIPS, but the number of jobs grew up by less than 50 %.
What pricing model is fair ?
I don't know. However I know, what is reality: it is necessary to fing
competitive vendor, get their offer, including migration assistance, and
re-negotiate the original agreement. Result: 1/3 of original price. In
fact, I don't care what pricing model they prefer, how many programmers
they hire, especially how many sales specialists have income from my
account. Competition gives me reasonable prices, because I have an
alternative.
Todays' PC industry charges "per seat" or "per computer" for most
things. If Windows XP runs on every desktop in an organization, the
number of copies purchased by a large company will generate
proportionally more revenue for Microsoft than the number of copies
purchased by a small company.
I think, MS pricing model is quite unique. Vast majority of Win licenses
sold are OEM licenses. So in fact they charge PC vendor per number of
PCs sold, doesn't matter what will be used on that PC - Linux, OS/2 or
anything else. You pay the bucks for the sticker on enclosure.
However majority of PC software is charged per installation (per PC).
It is also worth to mention Oracle pricing model: per processor. It is
quite silly IMHO, since they AFAIK count each processor equally: it can
be z9 IFL, or PowerPC, or Alpha AXP, or PA-RISC, or SPARC. The problem
is to get similar computing (and DB) power different numbers of
processors are required. As a result, some platforms are favoured over
others. Definitely not a goal of Oracle.
Last but not least: Software expenses are growing part of IT budget,
while hardware partis shrinking.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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