User based pricing Re: Saving the System i: Fight Pervasive with Pervasive

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Why would user based pricing be any good?

Development machine?
Most of the grunt editing is done via WDSC or some other editor nowadays. 
That load is off.

Production machine?
EDI vendor already has zero flexibility with tiered pricing - "sure it's 
on a 570 now, but limited use, most processing is on other stuff".  Reply 
"get the flipping check in the mail, slave".
Some other vendors are using user pricing, like BPCS.
Then you get into the argument over what is a user?  If I use multiple 
5250 sessions does each count as a user?  If I have 1,000 users but they 
all share the same 5250 user id but use a different application provided 
password for the application does that count as one user?  If I have a 
batch job that feeds data from one major customer off to several divisions 
does that count as one user?

Rob Berendt