How to Get Out from Under an Obsolete Legacy Technology
Thanks, Joe. It doesn't quite make sense to me. I thought being able to add the 5 pack of users for $1250 (5 x $250) at a time covered iseries signon (anything from ODBC to FTP to Client Access to WDSc development, etc.). That made sense. From what I saw, the $4000 covered unlimited "external" authenticated access *which used iseries software* (emphasis mine, I'm not sure what it means). This somehow seemed to be in between anonymous web page serving and the above iseries user sign ons, but the only difference would be Websphere authenticating I guess, and then they only care if iseries software is run for them (and the alternative?). If it's all one and the same then 20 iseries users for $3750 and unlimited for $4000? Makes no sense to me. It sounded like there was a middle tier of authenticated web users for the $4000. I don't know. The server cost is more reasonable, but adding $4000 for web server user licensing would be a deal breaker compared to other hosts, wouldn't it? It would be for me, I know. rd
Thanks, Joe. It doesn't quite make sense to me. I thought being able to add the 5 pack of users for $1250 (5 x $250) at a time covered iseries signon (anything from ODBC to FTP to Client Access to WDSc development, etc.). That made sense. From what I saw, the $4000 covered unlimited "external" authenticated access *which used iseries software* (emphasis mine, I'm not sure what it means). This somehow seemed to be in between anonymous web page serving and the above iseries user sign ons, but the only difference would be Websphere authenticating I guess, and then they only care if iseries software is run for them (and the alternative?). If it's all one and the same then 20 iseries users for $3750 and unlimited for $4000? Makes no sense to me. It sounded like there was a middle tier of authenticated web users for the $4000. I don't know. The server cost is more reasonable, but adding $4000 for web server user licensing would be a deal breaker compared to other hosts, wouldn't it? It would be for me, I know. rd
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