I'm preparing a quote for a customer under Passport Advantage.

They want a price for Online 5. The cost for 25 users is about £15k (part
number D6DHNLL). But there is an "Online extended edition for Linux"
(D51ZILL) at one-thord of the price. Sounds ideal, as my client wants to
move to Linux. Does anyone know what this product is? Is it a special
promotion for Linux? if so, it's not mentioned on the website.

thanks
Neil

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message
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> I'm preparing a quote for a customer under Passport Advantage.
>
> They want a price for Online 5. The cost for 25 users is about £15k (part
> number D6DHNLL). But there is an "Online extended edition for Linux"
> (D51ZILL) at one-thord of the price. Sounds ideal, as my client wants to
> move to Linux. Does anyone know what this product is? Is it a special
> promotion for Linux? if so, it's not mentioned on the website.

it is Online 5.20. It has some limitations of 5.10 removed. Most notably
the 2GB limitation of chunk size.

Is it available in Linux on an unlimited user license basis?

No, it's all per session, according to PA.
Well, according to my interpretation of PA to be precise.

But it's available on Linux for 25 users at £4275, and all other platforms
for £14,975.
I wonder why IBM aren't making a fuss about this?

Incidentally, DB2 Express for the same number of users is £2,550 ...


"rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>
> "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message
> news:c0u2v1$1artp0$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > I'm preparing a quote for a customer under Passport Advantage.
> >
> > They want a price for Online 5. The cost for 25 users is about £15k
(part
> > number D6DHNLL). But there is an "Online extended edition for Linux"
> > (D51ZILL) at one-thord of the price. Sounds ideal, as my client wants
to
> > move to Linux. Does anyone know what this product is? Is it a special
> > promotion for Linux? if so, it's not mentioned on the website.
>
> it is Online 5.20. It has some limitations of 5.10 removed. Most notably
> the 2GB limitation of chunk size.
>
> Is it available in Linux on an unlimited user license basis?
>
>
>
>

Neil Truby wrote:

> No, it's all per session, according to PA.
> Well, according to my interpretation of PA to be precise.
>
> But it's available on Linux for 25 users at £4275, and all other platforms
> for £14,975.
> I wonder why IBM aren't making a fuss about this?

I couldn't imagine...

> Incidentally, DB2 Express for the same number of users is £2,550 ...

Yes, and somehow they still can't sell it to Informix users...

> "rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:c0u358$1c4dak$1@ID-75254.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>
>> "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote in message
>> news:c0u2v1$1artp0$1@ID-162943.news.uni-berlin.de...
>> > I'm preparing a quote for a customer under Passport Advantage.
>> >
>> > They want a price for Online 5. The cost for 25 users is about £15k
> (part
>> > number D6DHNLL). But there is an "Online extended edition for Linux"
>> > (D51ZILL) at one-thord of the price. Sounds ideal, as my client wants
> to
>> > move to Linux. Does anyone know what this product is? Is it a special
>> > promotion for Linux? if so, it's not mentioned on the website.
>>
>> it is Online 5.20. It has some limitations of 5.10 removed. Most notably
>> the 2GB limitation of chunk size.
>>
>> Is it available in Linux on an unlimited user license basis?

--
"C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule"
- Coluche

rkusenet wrote:

> "Neil Truby" <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrot:
>>I'm preparing a quote for a customer under Passport Advantage.
>>
>>They want a price for Online 5. The cost for 25 users is about £15k (part
>>number D6DHNLL). But there is an "Online extended edition for Linux"
>>(D51ZILL) at one-thord of the price. Sounds ideal, as my client wants to
>>move to Linux. Does anyone know what this product is? Is it a special
>>promotion for Linux? if so, it's not mentioned on the website.
>
> it is Online 5.20. It has some limitations of 5.10 removed. Most notably
> the 2GB limitation of chunk size.


Actually, not the size - that's still 2 GB. However, you can specify
a chunk offset that is bigger than 2 GB, so you can create a series of
chunks, each of size 2 GB, in a single disk.

The other big difference is that I-Star comes with the product and is
not a separate purchase.

--
Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h>
Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com
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