Grab a Spoonful of Web Services!
One of the biggest challenges we face in life is not wanting to pay for the whole bowl just to get a taste. If software companies were like ice cream shops, they would have a little bowl of spoons that would allow you to try web services before you bought a whole bowl, or whatever the mainframe equivalent of a bowl is. GT Software announced this week that if you want to start slow, or just dip your toe into the water of web services, that you can pay as you go. More specifically, you only pay for the web services you put into production and actually use.
By taking “financial risk” off the table, an organization can truly focus on the business value of mainframe integration. To further mitigate risk, the Ivory product line offers deployment of web services to a range of platforms off the mainframe so additional mainframe workload can also be taken off the table. If you want to stay on the mainframe, we will leverage MIPS reducing hardware such as zIIP, zAAP and the IFL processors with zLinux.
This is a radical departure from what you get from the traditional software licensing model, but we are so confident that once you try Ivory, you will be successful. “GT Software deserves praise for taking some of the user’s risk onto its own shoulders by only charging for customer success,” said Steve Craggs, Principal Analyst at Lustratus Research. “Too many vendors throw fee-based or even free software at projects and then walk away, leaving users to struggle to achieve value and carry all the risk. By linking its own reward to user success, GT Software creates the best possible win/win incentive.”
