Patent ID: 7519561

Claim:
A computer program product for estimating an increase in total software license cost for executing a plurality of different computer programs in a first computer instead of executing said plurality of different computer programs in a plurality of existing, different computers, said computer program product comprising: a tangible computer readable storage media; first program instructions to identify in which of said plurality of existing computers each of said different computer programs is currently installed, by querying respective configuration files of said plurality of existing computers; second program instructions to determine, for said each of said different computer programs, a total processor power in said plurality of existing computers in which said each of said different computer programs is currently installed, by automatically querying respective configuration files of said plurality of existing computers and totaling the processing power for said plurality of existing computers in which said each of said different computer programs is currently installed; third program instructions to identify, for said each of said different computer programs, an existing, total license cost in said plurality of existing computers in which said each of said different computer programs is currently installed; fourth program instructions to divide said existing, total license cost for said each of said different computer programs in said plurality of existing computers in which said each of said different computer programs is currently installed, by said total processor power of said plurality of existing computers in which said each of said different computer programs is currently installed to determine a license cost per unit of processor power for said each of said different computer programs; and fifth program instructions to multiply, for said each of said different computer programs, a difference between a processor power of said first computer and a total processor power of said plurality of existing computers in which said each of said different computer programs is currently installed, times said license cost per unit of processor power for said each of said different computer programs, to estimate said increase in software license cost for installing said each of said different computer programs in said first computer; and wherein said first, second, third, fourth and fifth program instructions are stored on said tangible computer readable storage media.