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Paul Koufalis
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If you are in the study phase, make sure to get all this in writing, It should be as easy as the sales guy adding some notes to the quote. Particularly, you want a note confirming that the core licenses are based on the number of physical cores assigned to the virtual machine. That eliminates this H/T confusion. Also, in the not-too-distant-past, the sales side has tried to convince customers that you need to licence ALL the cores in the physical box, regardless of the number of cores assigned to the VM hosting the Progress licences. This practice has mostly gone away, but you do want to make sure that Progress provides you with clear proof of this. Also, don't forget about the DR licenses. You should negotiate and purchase your OE Replication PLUS licenses now if you don't already have them. And if you have UBrokers or PASOE, same thing, discuss moving those licenses to core-based. We have seen a lot of confusion among end users regarding UBroker agent licenses vs named user licenses. This has led to some pretty nasty surprises. Going to core-based makes most of this (or maybe all) just go away. As for ROI, it's really application dependent. Using ProTop, we have worked with customers to identify code inefficiencies that were consuming multiple CPUs, and have had quite a bit of success making relatively small code changes that had a large impact on CPU usage. If you can go through this exercise, your CPU requirements may go down, increasing the ROI of the switch to core-based.
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