On Mer, 2003-12-17 at 00:05, Adam Thornton wrote: > 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.
Wouldn't this depend on the price per instance and the number of instances, as well as the availability of both options ?
