Change to Replication Licensing

I thought that this group might be interested to know that IBM have changed the licensing with regard to HDR. Now, if you are on processor based licensing then even if the secondary server is idle (just waiting for the primary to fail) then you still need to purchase a single processor licence for the secondary ! Another good reason to stay with Informix ? Regards David Linthwaite Lintel Software Consultancy Ltd IBM Business Partner Tel: 01244 316297 Fax: 01244 357248 mailto:dlinthwaite@lintel.co.uk sending to informix-list

Did you get someone to confirm this in writing? "David Linthwaite" <dlinthwaite@lintel.co.uk> wrote in message news:c1f84c$o45$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > I thought that this group might be interested to know that IBM have > changed the licensing with regard to HDR. Now, if you are on processor > based licensing then even if the secondary server is idle (just waiting > for the primary to fail) then you still need to purchase a single > processor licence for the secondary ! > > Another good reason to stay with Informix ? > > Regards > > David Linthwaite > Lintel Software Consultancy Ltd > IBM Business Partner > > Tel: 01244 316297 > Fax: 01244 357248 > mailto:dlinthwaite@lintel.co.uk > > > sending to informix-list

David Linthwaite wrote: > I thought that this group might be interested to know that IBM have > changed the licensing with regard to HDR. Now, if you are on processor > based licensing then even if the secondary server is idle (just waiting > for the primary to fail) then you still need to purchase a single > processor licence for the secondary ! I thought in case of HDR, the customer must purchase license for both primary and secondary. It was always like that. Only for cluster solutions (like veritas) where one server stays in cold mode, waiting for the other to fail, one need not purchase any license for the second box (cold one). Ravi