[Default] On 18 Oct 2017 22:22:44 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Timothy Sipples) wrote:
>Vignesh Sankaranarayanan wrote: >>From time to time, I get these questions in my head such as, >>what would happen if IBM were to try and implement a per-second >>billing sort of thing that cloud providers do. > >How about something even better: per business transaction/event/task >pricing? Do test transactions/events/tasks to make sure the software works get charged? How does the package recognize a test? Clark Morris > >IBM offers that pricing option with IBM Financial Transaction Manager for >z/OS. FTM is an extremely popular payments solution, and FTM customers now >have the option to pay for the software based on the number of actual >payments handled. Not something techie-geek like CPU-seconds or MSUs but >rather on actual payments, what the business users and managers care about. > >"Talk to your friendly IBM representative" if you're interested in that >pricing option. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Timothy Sipples >IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA >E-Mail: [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
