Hey.... why should I pay more for a zseries processor than I would
pay for an intel processor? the development cycle is the same !! Here,
in Brazil, one license of Redhat for zseries (government company) is
about us$ 26.000,00, US price 18.000,00
(http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/purchase/index.html) comparing with
us$ 2.499,00 intel. The same problem you have with support services...
IBM supports DB2 UDB running on linux just if you have SUSE, RH...
enterprise edition $$$. And... if you read the '*' in the Redhat page:
*IBM zSeries & s/390 subscriptions include the ability to run and
support up 25 Enterprise Linux AS instances/images per subscription, per
engine.
And I would include "per year"...
For us, zseries users, the power of the architecture permits that we
have a lot of servers under zVM, but we paid for the hardware and zVM.
We have been running 30 linux images on 2 IFLs with zVM (DB2 and
Websphere) using RH 7.2 (Websphere and DB2) "free" and Tao Linux. As a
matter of fact, we are waiting to see customers reactions and how it
would be in the future, but we think it is expensive, specially for a
Brazilian company.
Luis.
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From: "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cos
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:51:41 -0400
I just checked the pricing at http://www.novell.com/licensing/price.html
>From what I can tell, the current list price of SLES8 on a Multiprise is
$9,319.00, which translates to 7.515,32 â. Sounds like they're giving you a
good deal.
If you're not running z/VM, then yes, that's going to be expensive, but you
can create multiple LPARs with just one license, so you can drop the
per-image price that way. If you are running z/VM, then it becomes easier
to create multiple Linux/390 systems. I'm not sure if Novell/SUSE has a
maximum number of images per license or not. You might want to check with
whomever gave you the quote to make sure.
Finally, stop apologizing for your "poor" English. Your written English is
better than a lot of people born in the US.
Mark Post
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
"EXT-JPB, Jorge Puente BeltrÃn."
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:59 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cost
Hi everyone,
My company is willing to deploy a project under Linux S/390. WeÂve got a
Multiprise 3000 and are looking ahead for a SuSe Enterprise Server 8.0, but
providers (Novell) have sent an offer around 5.400 â.
It seems to be a "little expensive", Âis these the real cost of the
Enterprise Server?
Thanks in advance and apologize my poor english.
Jorge Puente
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