Tuesday, January 3, 2012

IBM announces price changes on z/OS V1 and some other products

"Back to life, back to reality", you know the song (No ? Have a look over here), well it was the first thing that came to my mind, when reading the new IBM announcements.

First there's this one 'Price Changes on IBM z/OS V1 Operating System Software Program Products (ZA11-1053)'. It's a price raise for z/OS V1 and its features. But it's mainly for the larger companies as it only applies to VWLC and AWLC pricing. It does not apply to Entry Workload License Charges (EWLC), Advanced Entry Workload License Charges (AEWLC) or Flat Workload License Charges (FWLC). Depending on the pricing metric MLC charges will increase with 5% to 6%.

Another Price Change is on Subscription and Support (S&S) for some IPLA software (ZA11-1061). The selected products are :
  • IBM DB2 Automation Tool for z/OS Subscription and Support
  • IBM DB2 Cloning Tool for z/OS Subscription and Support
  • IBM IMS Batch Terminal Simulator for z/OS Subscription and Support
  • IBM CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS Subscription and Support
  • IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager for z/OS Subscription and Support
  • IBM WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS Subscription and Support
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition for z/OS Media Subscription and Support
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS Media Subscription and Support
  • IBM Tivoli Omegamon for z/OS Management Suite Subscription and Support

Do check out the announcement because price changes can vary quite a bit from country to country and from product to product.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

At least this time it’s being called a price increase and not a price change! That's the only good thing. This increase of 5% comes 9 months after the last one, so effectively it is a 6.7% increase. For a 2000MSU+ (~16300 MIPS) customer, a 6.7% price increase is equivalent to the cost of the next 2985 growth in MIPS. Put another way, 6.7% price increase impacts price/performance by 18.3%.
The announcement letter elaborates on z/OS improvements since it was announced, the inference being that there has been no increase prior to this one. The reality is that there has been an increase every year since 2008 totalling ~23% (compounded) ( - in this country at least). A pity…

Anonymous said...

Chase people away from our dear zOS platform ? Somebody a better way than this ? No ? I thought so...