Here's why: Buying HP-UX 11i v3 operating environments can reduce your initial purchase price for the software and its support by up to 74% – compared to purchasing the software components and their support separately.
The purchase is just the beginning of the savings. With our OEs, you will save precious time each time you apply a proactive patch bundle – HP-tested and integrated to apply to your OE. Have confidence that all 159 software products in the Data Centre OE, for example, will get you up and running immediately – without software version conflicts, without missing pieces, without headaches.
Save now. Save later. Reduce costs – not confidence – with HP quality at the whole operating system level.Our simple answer: Up to 74% savings in combined licence and support costs.
The majority of HP-UX 11i v3 customers buy HA-OE, VSE-OE or DC-OE for the functionality, and they benefit from the savings. But the answer isn't always simple. HP-UX 11i v3 is licensed per core, with prices tiered according to server size; support prices follow the same plan. Server size is determined by the number of processors. Some of the layered software licensing and support is priced per system, others per core. So depending on what system tier and OE you're considering, the answer varies.
We have compared the OE prices with component prices in the fairest way possible. For example, in the VSE-OE, we could compare with the VSE Suite, which offers the virtualisation software at a discount versus the pieces, or we could compare with the line item prices for each piece of software. We used VSE Suite prices.
If you're working with another UNIX operating system vendor, make sure they're quoting all the pieces of software you need, to ensure that you're comparing like-for-like, and that your business benefits from the functionality – not just the savings.
