My cynicism and knowing Sag's attitude towards subcapacity licensing leads me to expect that they charge close to what they would charge for a full CP.
Natural is a good language, but Sag's growth model is in other areas of their product line. Adabas/Natural shops are a captive revenue source. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 8:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: zIIP Enabler for Natural > > On 6/7/2013 5:23 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: > > Is this an additional charge feature or just a startup option? > > It appears to be an additional charge, which is interesting. AFAIK, > every other vendor from IBM, to CA, to (Phoenix--that's us!), to you- > name-it has offered zIIP enablement free as a way to make their > products more attractive and to help lower costs for our platform. > > Software AG's approach is probably aimed at helping them recoup some of > the development costs associated with zIIP enablement--which can be > quite high. > > Have other software providers done this as well? Or is Software AG the > first? > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
