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CEO bundles that include Lotus Notes and Domino

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino licensing
Client/server licensing		Per user licensing		PVU licensing
Server options	Client options	Lotus Domino Express offerings priced per user	CEO bundles	Lotus Domino Utility Server Express	Lotus Domino Utility Server

IBM® Passport Advantage is the comprehensive software licensing and Software Subscription and Support program from IBM. It is the most flexible and cost-effective way for organizations to reap the benefits of volume pricing for new software, new releases of the latest technology, and technical support to keep businesses up and running.

The IBM Passport Advantage program consists of a general acquisition program for specific software products and their supporting Software Subscription and Support services. It also offers a Complete Enterprise Option (CEO) to acquire groups of products to be deployed across an enterprise on a per user basis.

With CEO bundles (called product categories), you pay a per user charge for the total number of employees in your company who have been assigned a computer capable of running the software. A minimum of 100 or 400 users applies, depending on the specific bundle, for the initial acquisition of licenses in each product category. As your organization grows, subsequent per user license acquisitions can be made in any quantity. With CEO pricing, you are entitled to use as many IBM Lotus® Domino® Messaging or IBM Lotus Domino Enterprise servers within your enterprise as you want, and your organization's employees are licensed for any of the software products listed in the bundle.

The table below lists the included products and the minimum initial user requirement for each of the following bundles that include IBM Lotus Notes® and Lotus Domino software.

IBM Lotus Communications CEO bundle
IBM Lotus Working Together CEO bundle
IBM Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle

For full details about CEO terms and conditions and a complete list of CEO bundles, refer to the CEO product categories page on the IBM Passport Advantage Web site.

*IBM Lotus Notes*
	Software products	Minimum users
Lotus Communications	Lotus Domino Messaging Server Lotus Domino Enterprise Server Lotus Notes for Collaboration Lotus Notes for Messaging Lotus Domino Web Access for Collaboration Lotus Domino Web Access for Messaging Lotus Domino Designer Lotus Domino WebMail	100
Lotus Working Together	Lotus Domino Messaging Server Lotus Domino Enterprise Server Lotus Notes for Collaboration Lotus Notes for Messaging Lotus Domino Web Access for Collaboration Lotus Domino Web Access for Messaging Lotus Domino Designer Lotus Domino WebMail Lotus Smartsuite	100
Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal Includes Lotus Communications CEO bundle plus selected WebSphere Portal Enable offering components	Lotus Domino Messaging Server Lotus Domino Enterprise Server Lotus Notes for Collaboration Lotus Notes for Messaging Lotus Domino Web Access for Collaboration Lotus Domino Web Access for Messaging Lotus Domino Designer Lotus Domino WebMail WebSphere Portal, including the following: WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation IBM Directory Server IBM Cloudscape, Certain components of DB2 IBM Workplace Web Content Management WebSphere Translation Server	400

Frequently Asked Questions - Passport Complete Enterprise Option

Q. What is a Passport Advantage CEO product category?
A. A CEO product category (bundle) is a collection of associated software products that, together, constitute an enterprise infrastructure solution.

Q. Do any of the CEO bundles include IBM Lotus Domino Designer software?
A. Yes. The following CEO bundles include Lotus Domino Designer: Lotus Communications, Lotus Working Together and the Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal bundle.

Q. Do any of the CEO bundles include Lotus Domino Utility Server software?
A. No. The CEO bundles are based on a per user pricing model, while Lotus Domino Utility Server software is based on processor value unit pricing.

Q. What are the differences between CEO licensing and the per user Lotus Domino Express offerings?
A. The per user IBM Lotus Domino Express offerings (IBM Lotus Domino Messaging Express and IBM Lotus Domino Collaboration Express) are designed for, and available only to, companies with 1000 employees or fewer. License restrictions remove select Lotus Domino elements and attributes that are appropriate primarily to larger enterprises. There is no initial minimum license quantity, and you are not required to have a license for every user in the company. You pay for the number of people who will specifically be using the software included in the offering.

CEO licensing is designed for larger organizations. A minimum initial license quantity applies (100 or 400 users depending on the specific bundle), and you are required to acquire licenses for the total number of employees in the organization who have been assigned a computer capable of running the software.

Q. My primary supplier is a Lotus Domino shop, and his employees have Lotus Notes for Collaboration CALs. Do his employees have the right to access my CEO servers?
A. No. Access to servers acquired through the per user licensing model is limited to the users for whom you have paid the per user charge. No additional access is allowed. Your supplier's employees are not entitled to access your CEO servers. If you would like to extend access to users outside the organization, you can add Lotus Domino Utility Server licenses.

Frequently Asked Questions - Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle

Q. What is in the IBM Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle?
A. The bundle consists of Lotus CEO Communications (Comms) plus all of the components of IBM WebSphere Portal Enable except IBM Rational Application Developer. The bundle is a CEO product category.

Q. What are the components that make up this CEO bundle?
A. The bundle includes:

Lotus Domino Messaging Server per processor
Lotus Domino Enterprise per Processor
Lotus Domino Web Access for Collaboration per user
Lotus Domino Web Access for Messaging per user
Lotus Domino WebMail
Lotus Domino Designer per user
Lotus Notes for Collaboration per user
Lotus Notes for Messaging per user
IBM Workplace Messaging per user
IBM WebSphere Portal Enable software

Q. Why should you as an existing Lotus Domino customer trade up to this bundle?
A. The benefit to an existing Lotus Domino customer is that if you trade up to this bundle, you will continue to receive the full value of the current CEO Lotus Comms bundle, plus you will now receive the WebSphere Portal Enable product.

You can extend your messaging and collaborative application infrastructure plus benefit from WebSphere Portal, which is the leading Portal solution on the market today. With the existing technical integration and continued integration with the next major releases of the products, IBM continues to offer comprehensive solutions that help our customers to preserve their existing investments.

Q. What are the key benefits of having an IBM WebSphere Portal solution?
A. Lotus Domino applications integrate with WebSphere Portal solutions, so your investment can be extended even further, giving more people on more devices access to your Lotus Domino solutions. WebSphere Portal simplifies and integrates access to your Lotus Domino applications -- along with other information, business processes and applications.

Lotus Domino customers can easily get the dynamic information they need and can quickly execute business processes across critical applications. They can collaborate with portal users inside and outside the business. WebSphere Portal also provides the industry-leading portal solutions for your business, and our portal solution helps improve employee productivity, cut costs and strengthens relationships with your customers and trading partners.

Q. What are the options for integrating Lotus Domino applications with WebSphere Portal?
A. There are several ways to integrate Lotus Domino with WebSphere Portal. Two of the integration tools available for download from the WebSphere Portal section of the IBM Workplace Solutions Catalog are the Lotus Domino Application Portlet and the Lotus Notes and Domino and Extended Products Portlets.

Q. What value does this CEO bundle provide?
A. The IBM Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle can provide significant value. It is an easy way to acquire WebSphere Portal on a per user basis. And you can take advantage of limited entitlements provided with WebSphere Portal Enable, including IBM Workplace Web Content Management, IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory and IBM OmniFind.

Q. How can you tell if this packaged solution is for you?
A. If your plans are to remain on the Lotus Notes/Domino platform and you are considering a portal solution, this packaging option provides a comprehensive offering including messaging, collaboration, application development and the benefits of portal with a competitive, easy to acquire option. You can either trade up from Lotus CEO Comms to the IBM Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle or acquire first time licenses. The standard CEO rules apply to this bundle. For customers trading up, the initial minimum transaction is 400 licenses.

Q. I have a current subscription to CEO Comms today. How do I take advantage of this bundle?
A. If you have active Software Subscription and Support for CEO Comms, you can trade up to the new IBM Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle.

Q. I am a first time customer and want both Lotus Domino and WebSphere Portal. What do I license?
A. You can acquire first time licenses of the new Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle through Passport Advantage. It is priced on a per user basis.

Q. I am a licensee of WebSphere Portal Enable with active Software Subscription and Support. What can I do to take advantage of this bundle?
A. Existing portal customers can acquire a first time license of the Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle. IBM does not offer tradeup pricing to move from WebSphere Portal Enable to the Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle.

Q. I am no longer on subscription for CEO Comms, but want to reinstate my Software Subscription and Support . How do I take advantage of the IBM Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle?
A. You can acquire the Lotus Messaging and WebSphere Portal CEO bundle license, which includes a full year of Software Subscription and Support and product updates.

Q. Where can I get more information?
A. Contact your IBM sales representative or IBM Business Partner.