From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 04:44:10 EST
AIX 4.3.3 is free, (where free="no additional cost"). You get it
automatically with a server, (until June).
I made some inquiries recently for AIX5L. The cost was per-cpu, and was the
same no matter what the type of server or processor. Same price for 5.1 and
5.2.
It's hard to say what the 5.2 licence for your H50 would cost: it may depend
on customer discounts, and of course anything I see is in a different
currency so it's subject to exchange rates and global pricing differences.
Not less than USD500 and not more than USD2000.
I'm not sure what that faffing around with serial numbers was about. I
guess they just want to make sure you're a legitimate customer and not a
journalist or something like that.
To actually purchase a license it's not unreasonable that they'd need a
serial number.
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
AIX-L Archive at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2
AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/
N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will seldom be appreciated.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Muller [mailto:aix_sa_706@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: 03 April 2003 22:37
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: AIX license costs
>
>
> I phoned IBM Software Sales to ask the cost of AIX
> licenses. I was told that I had to provide a serial
> number of a machine that is registered to my agency
> before I could be given a quote, and it is impossible
> to find out what a license will cost prior to
> purchasing a server.
>
> Can would anyone care to make a guess what AIX
> licenses would cost under the following two
> conditions?
>
> 1. AIX v4.3.3 on a 7013-J50 with 4 CPUs
> 2. AIX v5.2 on a 7025-H50 with 4 CPUs
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