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Morten Andersen

Co-Founder & Principal Advisor. Twenty years across enterprise IT and the mainframe world, now on the buyer side of mainframe software licensing.

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Morten brings twenty years of enterprise IT and mainframe experience, built around the contracts, capacity metrics, and vendor negotiations that decide what an estate actually pays. He co-founded Mainframe Licensing Experts to give buyers the same depth their publishers bring to every deal. He concentrates on license negotiation and cost optimization, and writes here on the measurement detail such as MSU, MIPS, R4HA, and SCRT, and the contract structure behind every mainframe invoice.

81

Articles authored

20+

Years in mainframe & IT

7

Publishers covered

② Articles by Morten

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Why Renewal Preparation Starts at 18 Months Why CFOs Misread Mainframe Software Spend When a 60 Percent Uplift Lands: A Pattern Analysis System Automation for z/OS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Splitting the Estate: Licensing Through a Divestiture Rocket Software Contract Traps to Avoid OPS/MVS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number MSU Optimization: Quick Wins Before the Renewal IMS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number IBM Z Development and Test Environment Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number IBM Contract Traps to Avoid Compuware (BMC) Contract Traps to Avoid CA View Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Benchmarking Syncsort (Precisely) Mainframe Spend Benchmarking Rocket Software Mainframe Spend Benchmarking Compuware (BMC) Mainframe Spend Benchmarking BMC Mainframe Spend Adabas in 2026: The Estate Nobody Wants to Touch AMI DevX Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number z/VM Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number What Happens to Pricing After a Vendor Is Acquired WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Vendor Consolidation on the Frame: Who Owns What Now The Two Vendor Strategy on the Frame The State of Broadcom (CA) Renewals: Patterns From the Table The Renewal That Became an Audit: Avoiding the Trap The Pricing Power Problem in Mainframe Software The Mainframe Licensing Questions Boards Are Asking The Hidden Cost of MIPS Creep in 2026 Telon Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number TLMS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Syncsort (Precisely) Roadmap Moves and Their License Impact Syncsort (Precisely) Price Increase Patterns and How to Counter Them Syncsort (Precisely) Audit Activity: What We Are Seeing Software AG Roadmap Moves and Their License Impact Software AG Price Increase Patterns and How to Counter Them Software AG Audit Activity: What We Are Seeing Rocket UniVerse and UniData Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Rocket Software Support Cost Escalation: The Quiet Compounder Rocket Software Renewal Trends: Patterns From the Table Recovery Management for Db2 Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number RACF Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number NetView Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Negotiation Calendar: The Quarters That Favor Buyers Negotiating With Software AG: The Five Levers That Work Negotiating With IBM: The Five Levers That Work Negotiating With Broadcom (CA): The Five Levers That Work Negotiating Caps: Inflation Clauses on the Mainframe Mainframe Software Renewal Trends We Are Seeing in 2026 Mainframe Cost Allocation: Chargeback Models That Work MIM Resource Sharing Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number MAXM (MaxView) Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Linux on IBM Z Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Ironstream and the Observability Licensing Angle IBM Support Cost Escalation: The Quiet Compounder IBM Renewal Trends: Patterns From the Table How We Build a Walk Away Position on the Mainframe GDPS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Five Mainframe Contract Clauses We Renegotiate Most Endevor Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Easytrieve Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Db2 for z/OS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number DFSMS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Control-M Renewals: What Moves the Number Compuware (BMC) Support Cost Escalation: The Quiet Compounder Compuware (BMC) Renewal Trends: Patterns From the Table Catalog Manager Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number COBOL Compiler Family Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA Panvalet Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA Gen Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA Deliver Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA 11 Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Buyer Side Wins: Patterns From 500 Engagements Broadcom (CA) Roadmap Moves and Their License Impact Broadcom (CA) Price Increase Patterns and How to Counter Them Broadcom (CA) Audit Activity: What We Are Seeing BMC Roadmap Moves and Their License Impact BMC Price Increase Patterns and How to Counter Them BMC Audit Activity: What We Are Seeing AMI Security Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number AMI Data for Db2 Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number

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