Just to echo what everyone else is saying, VS FORTRAN is licensed per-machine, not per-LPAR.
Your work may already be done, in other words. I concur with the advice to ask an IBM rep. He/she should be able to tell you what impact (if any) there would be if you take a certain action. There are a few (too few) competent, independent IT cost consultants who are often well worth their fees. There are also some very bad ones. It's always essential to understand real costs in a fully dynamic sense across the organization. I'm finding an awful lot of organizations just don't, and in many cases that lack of understanding is killing them as they take perverse cost-increasing actions. I know it's not easy, but please be careful out there. Yes, we're getting the management memos, too. My running joke (?) is that we have successfully reduced our paper budget by 100%, but unfortunately we can no longer write any sales contracts. For perspective, a VS FORTRAN license on one machine seems to have a much lower price than even a single employee in a Western economy.... ....The implications of that are rather depressing, aren't they? Sorry I mentioned it. See the "recession proof jobs" discussion to cheer up again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
