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by Anonymous User on Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 02:16:47 PM PDT

Mainframe software is indeed frequently licensed by machine capacity, but that's based on the assumption that a larger machine can and will service more users. And if you do change the machine, you sure can transfer the license -- any mainframe vendor who didn't allow that would be out of business pretty quickly (even CA). Now, if you *upgrade* the machine, you sure may have to pay for the difference between the old license "size" and the new one, but that's a different matter.

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