[8689] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: IBM model of AFS support?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerhard Gonter)
Wed May 30 11:46:14 2001
From: Gerhard Gonter <gonter@maestria.wu-wien.ac.at>
Message-Id: <200105301539.RAA45804@maestria.wu-wien.ac.at>
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"R.Ries@tu-bs.de" at "May 30, 2001 05:13:06 pm"
To: R.Ries@tu-bs.de
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:39:22 +0200 (MES)
CC: info-afs@transarc.com, afsdeu@hrz.th-darmstadt.de,
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According to R.Ries@tu-bs.de:
> In Germany we managed to get a support contract for 3 Servers and
> 2 years inclusive updates (after having a lot of confusion) through
> IBM and an IBM Advanced Business Partner. The price is for the academic
> community and is about 3500,- DM plus VAT per Server for 2 years,
> 2700,- DM plus VAT per Server for 1 year.
Hmm... That's not bad. "Registered entities" are not used in the
license fee calculation?
The first quote we got from IBM was EUR 436000 for one year, but we
were kindly offered a 50% rebate. Our last Transarc fee was something
like EUR 14500. We were not amused about that.
+gg
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