Re: PVU - half a license?
You pay up when you submit the output from ITLM which you dutifully installed and run as required under the additional sub-capacity contracts you signed. On Feb 5, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > > > >> From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> > >> PeterP wrote: >> > On Feb 1, 7:03 pm, "Neil Truby" <neil.tr...@ardenta.com> wrote: >> <SNIP> >> >> > Affinitize - I can't think of a better word to make up and I used >> > standard Informix U.S. language with a 'z' (as in initialized) >> despite >> > being English for ease of readability in this group. >> >> I like 'affine' myself, though the list gave me significant grief >> a year or >> so ago when I first used it here. 8^( >> > Well, considering that English is a bastardized language, I don't > see why not. > If truthiness ?sp? can be made a word, why not affine? > > > But back to the topic, if you're running a multicore cpu, should > you be charged for 2 cpus or did IBM decide on a formula? > > And now the 64K question... Suppose you have a new quad core cpu. > And you then "affine" 2 to be used for Informix. If IBM does let > you pay the lower license, what happens if you decide to "affine" > all cores later? > > I mean from IBM's perspective, its a lose/lose battle. Even if they > decide to limit the number of VCPUs on start up after a check on > the license brand... Customers would balk... > > Or are you lying if you order IDS for a single CPU and omit that > its a multi-core cpu? > > _________________________________________________________________ > Valentine’s Day -- Shop for gifts that spell L-O-V-E at MSN > Shopping http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/? > ctId=8323,ptnrid=37,ptnrdata=24095&tcode=wlmtagline > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
Does IBM charge extra for ITLM? And can Informix run without ITLM? Thanks in advance! Christine Normile wrote: > You pay up when you submit the output from ITLM which you dutifully > installed and run as required under the additional sub-capacity > contracts you signed. > On Feb 5, 2007, at 9:24 AM, Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > >> >> >> >>> From: "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> >> >>> PeterP wrote: >>> > On Feb 1, 7:03 pm, "Neil Truby" <neil.tr...@ardenta.com> wrote: >>> <SNIP> >>> >>> > Affinitize - I can't think of a better word to make up and I used >>> > standard Informix U.S. language with a 'z' (as in initialized) despite >>> > being English for ease of readability in this group. >>> >>> I like 'affine' myself, though the list gave me significant grief a >>> year or >>> so ago when I first used it here. 8^( >>> >> Well, considering that English is a bastardized language, I don't see >> why not. >> If truthiness ?sp? can be made a word, why not affine? >> >> >> But back to the topic, if you're running a multicore cpu, should you >> be charged for 2 cpus or did IBM decide on a formula? >> >> And now the 64K question... Suppose you have a new quad core cpu. And >> you then "affine" 2 to be used for Informix. If IBM does let you pay >> the lower license, what happens if you decide to "affine" all cores >> later? >> >> I mean from IBM's perspective, its a lose/lose battle. Even if they >> decide to limit the number of VCPUs on start up after a check on the >> license brand... Customers would balk... >> >> Or are you lying if you order IDS for a single CPU and omit that its a >> multi-core cpu? >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Valentine's Day -- Shop for gifts that spell L-O-V-E at MSN Shopping >> http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=8323,ptnrid=37,ptnrdata=24095&tcode=wlmtagline >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Informix-list mailing list >> Informix-list@iiug.org >> http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >