Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-31 Thread Ed Gould
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS In <1e7a8b5a967dfb42b888c2c05cfe0f5b047...@mmoex10

Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-31 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
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Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-31 Thread Hal Merritt
software costs based on MIPS In <1e7a8b5a967dfb42b888c2c05cfe0f5b047...@mmoex10mbs03.jhacorp.com>, on 05/30/2012 at 03:26 PM, Hal Merritt said: >No ISV wants a pricing strategy that potentially reduces income. Does that include a pricing policy that gives customers an incentive to swi

Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <1e7a8b5a967dfb42b888c2c05cfe0f5b047...@mmoex10mbs03.jhacorp.com>, on 05/30/2012 at 03:26 PM, Hal Merritt said: >No ISV wants a pricing strategy that potentially reduces income. Does that include a pricing policy that gives customers an incentive to switch to a competitor? -- Shmue

Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-30 Thread Hal Merritt
xpect any price breaks and the ISV may not survive much longer. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Magen Margalit Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ISV software costs based on

Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-29 Thread Magen Margalit
The Problem is that ISV's doesn't tend to go to MSU's pricing models easily... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-29 Thread Ken Porowski
du Subject: [IBM-MAIN] ISV software costs based on MIPS Hi list. Some of out vendors are using Gartner MIPS Rating as the base for software costs calculations. I have noticed that prior to Z196 MIPS Ratings the Gartner MIPS number significantly differed from IBM's LSPR / Sherill Watson CPU C

ISV software costs based on MIPS

2012-05-29 Thread Magen Margalit
Hi list. Some of out vendors are using Gartner MIPS Rating as the base for software costs calculations. I have noticed that prior to Z196 MIPS Ratings the Gartner MIPS number significantly differed from IBM's LSPR / Sherill Watson CPU Charts (which is also based on the LSPR data). On Z196 Garn