Re: IBM Micro-partitioning and software licensing

Neil Truby wrote: > "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message > news:4225FCE7.2030309@bloomberg.net... > > >>I dunno about that. We are charged by the number of physical CPUs we >>affine >>CPU VPs to. We run on 24-32 way Sun UltraSparc and normally use 2-8 >>processors >>for CPU VPs and that's the number of licenses we account for. > > > First of all, only an American could mangle the noun "affinity" and come up > with the verb "affine" :-) Guilty as charged. > I don't have a definitive answer to my assertion about LPARS or VPARS yet, > but you are definitely a special case here. No amount of pleading from > normal, non-leading-news-agency customers about affinity processing or > NUMCPUVPS settings will save ordinary mortals from being required to buy > 32-cpu licences in the case you describe. Mm. > Of course, this type of issue will generally only affect larger sites, of > whom IBM is perhaps more likely to take more notice and maybe allow > exceptions? It's not like we're cheating them out of anything. We're still paying WHOPPING numbers of $US for many hundreds of CPU licenses. Art S. Kagel