Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I understand that the development partner discounts are for ISVs who are 
developing approved products that help sell IBM systems, but I was not aware 
that www.idevcloud.com would not qualify.  I just thought it should be 
considered.  I don't recall all the restrictions, and have not been able to 
locate a copy of the agreement, but I do understand that the devil may be in the 
details.  The main restriction that comes to mind had to do with only using the 
box as a development platform as opposed to a production one.

Regardless of software licensing, it seems to me that the biggest cost by far, 
perhaps 80% would be the time value or salary of good system administrators.  It 
takes time to support say 30-40 tenants. It's not that I'm ignoring the cost of 
hardware, software, and physical facilities; I just think they need to be put 
into perspective.

-Nathan

----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, November 13, 2010 7:55:00 AM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

Even under that program there are restrictions in the Terms and 
Conditions that would have prohibited us from building the offering that 
we did.  The Ts&Cs are not nearly as straight forward as you are 
intimating.  That program assumes you are going to produce a product 
that will help sell IBM i, a reasonable thing from IBM since they are 
giving you a significant discount.  There are other parts of the Ts&Cs 
that come into play with that program that would put restrictions on 
what could be done with it.  With all things the devil is in the details.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC