Given the gasps that SUSE and Red Hat's per-processor charge generate now (compared to their other prices) I don't think they can "sanely" go the per-box route there. The price they would need to charge would turn people off because most of them wouldn't be willing to do the work to figure out what that would mean to them on a per-instance basis. If they could even figure out how many instances they'd be able to get on one box.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 7:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: IBM iSource -- U.S. Announcements On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 17:56, Mark Post wrote: > Kevin, > > I think Adam was hoping for the same change for zSeries as the i/pSeries: > one license charge for one physical box, not one license charge per > instance. Even so, I don't see how SUSE could make that change either, > given the relatively small number of processors used for Linux/390 workload. Well, I can see how SuSE could sanely do either a per-box or per-processor charge. A per-instance charge on zSeries would, however, destroy their Linux/zSeries business. Adam
