[Info-vax] How does VSI license pricing on Itanium work? By socket, by core, by relative performance. I can't get a straight answer from VSI.

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2020-03-05 13:12:27 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2020-03-04, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> Price lists and list prices and related have been discussed with VSI.
>> The price list here having a long history of "hoistage-taking."
> 
> $ set response/mode=good_natured
> 
> "hoistage-taking.". Would that be as in hoisted by their own petard 
> pricing ? :-)

Correct; licensing, pricing, sales models, and cost centers can each 
provide quite wonderful political and business quagmires, and for many 
vendors.
In many organizations, these areas are each fully primed petards, and 
the entrenched designs and support staff understandably slow to adapt. 
If.
Then there's LMF, which can be magnificently mendacious when that 
malevolently-designed licensing mechanism is mis-used for product 
telemetry.
For many software apps, instrumentation is lacking, with data largely 
funneled through the ill-suited lenses of sales and support.
Extracting app and organizational complexity tends to be an ongoing and 
Augean task for many organizations.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something..."


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