IBM Licensing Newsletter June 2023

News for the month from the world of IBM Licensing.?Links to posts, webinars, announcements with expert commentary.?I've done the digging so you get only the good stuff.

Thoughts on IBM licensing????

Oracle recently announced that Java SE Universal Subscription would be replacing other subscription options, significantly increasing costs for many organizations.?Where an organization has a large number of employees expect Java SE subscriptions costs to rise by 100X.

If you are using Java SE it is very difficult to go without a subscriptions dues to cyber security policies.?

Where an organization has a large number of employees expect Java SE subscriptions costs to rise by 100X.??

What's this got to do with IBM licensing I hear you ask ??. There are a number of?alternatives to Oracle Java,?OpenJDK being one of the most popular with both?IBM and Red Hat provide supported releases at a significantly lower cost.

Whatever your Java licensing strategy and choice of vendor you need to understand the size of the problem and available options. I recommend you do a few things:

• Establish all the servers on which Java SE is installed, including the versions and editions.
• Identify all servers you can removed from scope
• false positive, non-prod, legacy, for decommissioning, etc
• covered by an another vendor license (SAP, IBM, Weblogic EE, etc)
• version of Java free and/or acceptable by cyber security policy.
• java not used and can be uninstalled
• other acceptable reasons to exclude
• Model the cost of the different subscriptions out for a number of years.
• Model cost of uninstalling or replacing over a number of years

Once you have a clear view of the costs you can make an informed decision on versions, editions and vendor to use for Java SE.

I'd love to hear your thought and questions related to IBM licensing.?Leave a comment below or email me at [email protected]

??News and IBM Announcements

• The IBM Software Licensing site is going multilingual???.?At least 3 different languages so far, no doubt more coming.?Site in Portuguese anyone?
• IBM Signs Strategic Collaboration Agreement with Amazon Web Services to Deliver IBM Software as-a-Service on AWS
• Continuing Support for Db2 ends on 30 April 2024
• Very useful addition to the IBM Software Licensing site on license measurement methodologies. Find the product you are interested in and if you see a blue View hyperlink there's a measurement methodology you can read.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription guide was updated recently.?If you are managing red hat licensing a refresh read of the guide is worth your time.
• I doubt any of this audience are running ILMT on MS SQL Server 2012 but if you are it's time to upgrade as it's on the unsupported list

What I've been reading, listening or watching ?? ????

• Great post and even more interesting comments from a post by Eric Chiu on ChatGPT4's answer on IBM license audit and compliance risks.?
• Subscribe to Prompt Engineering daily for a regular update on all things AI. So far very interesting.
• Nice introduction to IBM license compliance on the Connor Consulting blog
• I was looking into IBM Cognos licensing recently.?I found two useful webinars:??IBM Cognos licensing from Attain Insight and?Cognos License Compliance - What You Need to Know from Ironside. There were a few others but they were out of date ????.?I wonder how ChatGPT would handle out of date licensing rules?

I encourage you to use the hashtag #ibmlicensing when you find a post?this audience might be interested in so it can be found more easily.

Events / Webinars ????

• Wisdom EMEA 2023 from the ITAM Review 14-15 June.?I won't be there this year but I find it a great couple of days to network.?Nothing on IBM this year, I'll have to sort that out for next year ??.
• Good webinar on Navigating a software audit from the Anglepoint team.?Many points apply to IBM audits so worth a listen
• In case you missed it there was a webinar on-demand from IBM on Gain IT Visibility to Reduce Cost and Mitigate Risk Webinar
• IBM Helps have released a video on youtube License Metric Tool Lite: Installation and configuration on Windows.?
• Not a bad webinar from the Anglepoint team on Navigating an audit.?The advice would apply to all vendors, including IBM.
• Origina Empower 2023 was on this month.?If you missed it you can still register to watch on demand.

IBM Licensing Tips ??

• Not 1 but 10 tips on the way. Keep an eye out later this month for my post on Top 10 Gotchas When Licensing IBM Software and SaaS and how to avoid them

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