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If the subscription pricing chatter in a previous post interested you, you might also like this short article on CA's mainframe app subscription pricing:

Under the new pricing, CA will measure a customer's software usage for three months to come up with a baseline price, Combs said. At that point, customers will be charged more only when usage increases, despite whether they increase the size of their mainframe hardware. Usage will be monitored through IBM's Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool.

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CA also announced that 20 packages of software tools would be available under the new licensing model. The packages are all in the company's infrastructure-management product line, including such areas as network management, systems management, job optimization and storage management.

I'd be interested to find out how the "baseline price" is determined. I'd suspect this is the chance for sales wiggle room. There's no room for negotiation, or simply "selling," in a flat rate.

What'll be even more interesting is if (1.) it's profitable for CA, and, more importantly, (2.) customers like it.