Tag: licencing

Upgrading The 170 To An i515 A No Brainer

15 October 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

The i515 proved to be a life saver for one organisation recently when their 9406-170 almost ground to a halt.

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IBM’s New Licencing On Models 515 And 525

15 June 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

IBM have introduced new i5/OS licensing on the new IBM System i models 515 and 525. This was done to allow customers to take advantage of the full capability of the operating system on these newer models. It works by simply licensing the number of concurrent-only authenticated users on i5/OS. Importantly, an i5/OS user is [...]

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Buy Some Time With An iSeries 270 Processor Upgrade

15 June 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

A number of our customers find that they need to upgrade their System i server but they don’t have the budget for a whole new server. They often find that they can “buy some time” inexpensively by purchasing a processor upgrade for their existing machine. By spending a bit of money now they can further [...]

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Oracle Licencing Changes

14 June 2007 No Comments by Computer Merchants

Do you run multi core CPUs in your server and run Oracle Databases? If you do here’s some good news for you. Oracle has changed the way they calculate their pricing for software. The old licensing model was based on CPUs or Cores. The new method is based on Sockets which can have multi core [...]

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