Marketing Announcement November 7, 2006

Price changes on products in IBM Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express

Overview Effective January 1, 2007, Passport Advantage Express suggested retail prices (SRP), Passport Advantage suggested volume prices (SVP), and list prices, as applicable, for the following categories of products, will be increased approximately 3%. • Most Passport Advantage eligible products from the IBM WebSphere , Information Management, Lotus , Tivoli , and Rational brands • Media and documentation packs associated with the Passport Advantage eligible products • Selected products available for order by program number and feature code with Passport Advantage eligible product counterparts, listed in the Description section Key prerequisites This announcement is applicable to all IBM Passport Advantage products licensed under the IBM International Program License Agreement.

Effective date

January 1, 2007

This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, contact your IBM representative.

IBM Europe, Middle East, Africa IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. ZA06-0264 Description

Products ordered by part number

In addition to Passport Advantage products, this price action also applies to the following selected products available for order by program number, including maintenance and other features for these products.

Tivoli products Program Description number IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Advanced Copy Services 5608-ACS IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases V5 5608-APD IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail V5.2 5608-APE IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Tivoli Continuous Data 5608-APF Protection for Files V2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Enterprise Resource 5608-APR Planning V5.2 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for 5608-APW Application Servers V5.2 IBM System Storage(TM) Archive Manager V5.3 5608-ARM IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Copy Services V5.3 5608-CSS IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management V5.3 5608-HSM IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.3 5608-ISM IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition V5.3 5608-ISX IBM Tivoli Storage Manager HSM for Windows(TM) V5.3 5608-SPM IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for System Backup 5608-SYS and Recovery V5.6.5 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express for Microsoft(TM) SQL 5608-TEQ IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express 5608-TES IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Express for Microsoft Exchange 5608-TEX IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V5.1 5608-TPM IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager V6.1 5724-O33 IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V3.1 5724-L09

Other products Program Description number IBM TotalStorage(R) Productivity Center for Replication 5608-TRA IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication Two 5608-TRB Site BC IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition 5608-VC0 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric 5608-VC1 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data 5608-VC3 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk 5608-VC4 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Limited Edition 5608-VC6 IBM TotalStorage SAN File System V2.2 5765-FS2 IBM XL Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX(R) 5724-I08 IBM XL C Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX 5724-I10 IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX 5724-I11 IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager V2.1 5724-I15 IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux(TM) 5724-K76 IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux 5724-K77 IBM XL C Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX 5724-M11 IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX 5724-M12 IBM XL Fortran Enterprise Edition V10.1 for AIX 5724-M13 IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V8.0.1 for Linux 5724-M16 IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition V10.1 for Linux 5724-M17

ZA06-0264 -2- Selected IBM System z products

This price action also applies to the following System z products, including other features and software maintenance (Subscription and Support).

WebSphere Program Description number IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS(R) V6 5655-N01 IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V5 5655-I35 IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V4 5655-F31 IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation 5655-L85 for z/OS V5 IBM WebSphere Process Server for z/OS V6 5655-N53 IBM WebSphere Enterprise Server Bus for z/OS 5655-R15 IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS V5 5655-M44 IBM WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS V6 5655-M74 IBM WebSphere Event Broker z/OS V6 5655-M75 WebSphere Message Broker with Rules & Formatter for z/OS V6 5697-J09 IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment for z/OS V6 5655-P28

Tivoli Program Description number IBM Tivoli Business System Manager for z/OS 5698-A21

Trademarks

System Storage and System z are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Passport Advantage, WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli, Lotus, TotalStorage, AIX, and z/OS are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Windows and Microsoft are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries or both. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

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