[INUG-Users] Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3 announced

[Don Wildman]

My email made no mention of device count in relation to Impact usage. The 
key sentence is "used for the query and integration of data stored and 
generated by IBM Tivoli Software products only". 

Impact has long had the policy of not charging for DSAs that are solely 
used to connect to Netcool products.  We are extending that to Tivoli 
products, and including an Impact server on top.

The license for 7.3 - 
http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/displaylis/8871FF08111F26A68525765E00569A6E?OpenDocument 
- has more detailed definition of the usage including (no attempt to 
paraphrase the lawyers here):-

"for the query and integration of data stored and generated by IBM Tivoli 
Software products only, and not for other data management or automation 
purposes with data sources that are not Tivoli products. For example, 
Tivoli Netcool/Impact Version 5.1.1 install (application instance) can be 
used to integrate with information generated by IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus 
or correlated with information from other licensed Tivoli product data 
stores, and cannot be used to integrate with non-Tivoli, custom or 3rd 
party data sources, read/write data to such data sources, or any resources 
managed by Tivoli products."

This is intended as an entry level benefit and provides significant 
functionality within a Tivoli domain. The majority are likely to move 
beyond the LuL into the full product usage over time.

-hth-
Don Wildman 
World Wide Product Manager ** Tivoli Event Management **

 

users-bounces at netcoolusers.org wrote on 04/11/2009 16:19:04:

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> Re: [INUG-Users] Netcool/OMNIbus 7.3 announced
> 
> Larry Roberts 
> 
> to:
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> users
> 
> 04/11/2009 16:19
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> Sent by:
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> users-bounces at netcoolusers.org
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> Please respond to users
> 
> I myself as of late have found the licensing very confusing as well 
> as these new updates come out.
> 
> 3) What is no-charge limited use license? From reading that paragraph 
> multiple times, it sounds like the entire suite is free if you're 
> under a certain number of devices. Some clarification would be really 
> appreciated.
> 
> >>> Jacob Steinberger <trefalgar at realitybytes.net> 2009/11/04 11:14 AM 
>>>
> Quoting Don Wildman <WILDMAN at uk.ibm.com>:
> > Recognizing these key business needs, the new release of
> > IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus V7.3 includes, as the strategic Event
> > Management Desktop, the Web 2.0 based user interface previously 
provided
> > by IBM Tivoli Netcool/Webtop and one component of IBM Tivoli
> > Netcool/Impact V5.1.1 under a no-charge limited use license.
> 
> A few questions about this blurb.
> 
> 1) Is Impact 5.1.1 usable in production now? Last I heard was the V5 
> release was mostly unusable.
> 
> 2) In your definition, what makes this a "Web 2.0" application? What 
> technology is used that is new in Webtop that would make this term 
> applicable?
> 
> 3) What is no-charge limited use license? From reading that paragraph 
> multiple times, it sounds like the entire suite is free if you're 
> under a certain number of devices. Some clarification would be really 
> appreciated.
> 
> > And yes, the native desktop is included in this release.  When you 
have
> > had a chance to review the powerful AEL in 7.3, please let me know if
> > there remain reasons why it would not make a good replacement for the
> > native desktop in your environment.
> 
> Same reason since WAVE or JEL was used - it's java and slow. There's a 
> lot of other technologies that could be leveraged besides java to make 
> a much better (faster) interface. But this also goes back to question 
> #2 - when someone says Web 2.0, they don't think of java.
> 
> Jacob
> 
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