Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I don't have a clue how many installations license MVS today
According to a Canadian IBM'r, there are approximately 6,000 mainframe licences
world-wide.
To put it in perspective, there are approximately 230,000 Oracle licences.
Ted,
Others already criticised the numbers comparison, they're absolutely
right. <vbg>
Indeed, you can have 1000's licenses for Personal Oracle (or simply
100's Windows servers with Oracle on-board), while having 1 (*ONE*)
license for DB2/CICS/whatever, running on your multi-CPC sysplex(es).
I would like to further complement the "incomparability": You can shut
down your CPC and stop paying for CICS - then you decrease number of
CICS licenses.
Oracle licenses are "one time charge" - we have several, despite we
switched off the servers and replaced the applications. We're still
allowed to use Oracle (however we don't intend to), we're still in
230.000 set. The same apply to canceled projects - there are plenty of
never-used software licenses around the world! Such cases (never used or
dropped licenses) increase base of OTCs, but not MLCs.
Regards
Happy Easter
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