Unlimited Processor License?

[Database Administrator]

Does any know what an Unlimited Processor License is? Seen here for
$50,000 (I'm sure it'd be more today):
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/...upgrade_1.html

I've heard of PVU (processor value unit), concurrent session and named
user licenses, but never this. Is it what most people would call a
server license? Meaning a license for a whole server no mater the
number of processors or database instances on the server?

[Database Administrator]

John wrote:
> Does any know what an Unlimited Processor License is? Seen here for
> $50,000 (I'm sure it'd be more today):
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/...upgrade_1.html
>
> I've heard of PVU (processor value unit), concurrent session and named
> user licenses, but never this. Is it what most people would call a
> server license? Meaning a license for a whole server no mater the
> number of processors or database instances on the server?

That article was published in 2005. I doubt Informix's pricing model
looks anything like that any more.

Still Neil Truby, that well-known expert on pricing, who was quoted in
that article, hangs out here. I'm sure he'll be along shortly with his
usual bonhomie and gravitas.

--
Cheers,
Obnoxio The Clown

http://obotheclown.blogspot.com

[Database Administrator]

On Nov 12, 1:03*pm, Obnoxio The Clown wrote:
> John wrote:
> > Does any know what an Unlimited Processor License is? *Seen here for
> > $50,000 (I'm sure it'd be more today):
> >http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/...upgrade_1.html
>
> > I've heard of PVU (processor value unit), concurrent session and named
> > user licenses, but never this. *Is it what most people would call a
> > server license? *Meaning a license for a whole server no mater the
> > number of processors or database instances on the server?
>
> That article was published in 2005. I doubt Informix's pricing model
> looks anything like that any more.
>
> Still Neil Truby, that well-known expert on pricing, who was quoted in
> that article, hangs out here. I'm sure he'll be along shortly with his
> usual bonhomie and gravitas.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Obnoxio The Clown
>
> http://obotheclown.blogspot.com


That licensing model is still available, but no where on IBM's site is
there a definition for it.

[Database Administrator]

John wrote:

> IBM's site

I wouldn't go there if I were you. People have been known to go in there
and never come out again.

--
Cheers,
Obnoxio The Clown

http://obotheclown.blogspot.com

[Database Administrator]

"John" wrote in message
news:13e6273b-88c7-4df7-ae81-d3827481b869@v39g2000pro.googlegroups.com...
> Does any know what an Unlimited Processor License is? Seen here for
> $50,000 (I'm sure it'd be more today):
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/...upgrade_1.html
>
> I've heard of PVU (processor value unit), concurrent session and named
> user licenses, but never this. Is it what most people would call a
> server license? Meaning a license for a whole server no mater the
> number of processors or database instances on the server?

It's a misunderstanding of the nature of the licence by the author; to be a
fair a perfectly understandable one.
The prioduct was then called "IBM Informix Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition
Unlimited Processor License ..."
But it doesn't mean "unlimited processors" at all. It means "Unlimited
users, one processor"

"Per processor" became troublesome as more and more vendors brought out
multi-core processors and so, as implied above, the per-processor licence
has since been replaced by the concept of a "Processor Value Unit", the
number of which required for a processor is a function of both the number of
cores *and* the chip type. The product is now called "IBM Informix Dynamic
Server Enterprise Unlimited Users Edition Processor Value Unit (PVU) Licence
....". Which might not be any clearer, but is at least no longer outrightly
misleading.