22 Aug
2007
22 Aug
'07
6:14 p.m.
You do kind of have to wonder how much it costs HP to
keep running this
licensing scheme...
Well, AFAIK the only O/Ses still working on a per-user fee scale are
the DEC derived systems (OpenVMS and Tru64), SCO, and Microsoft.
Everyone else (including HP for HP-UX) went over to unlimited user
licensing in the late '90s.
Being a hobbyist, I've never had occasion to poke around in commercial
VMS licensing. Do they still enforce the machine restrictions (i.e.
machine X is a "workstation" so it can only host up to 2 users, period,
another machine with the exact same VUPS rating is a "departmental
timeshare" that can host up to N users (with the proper licenses) . .
.)
22 Aug
22 Aug
6:55 p.m.
On 23/08/2007, at 11:14 AM, Scott Quinn wrote:
OpenVMS licensing for the new Integrity (aka Itaniam) systems uses a
model similar to that used by HP-UX, so there are no per-user
restrictions. OpenVMS licensing on VAX and Alpha did not change to
use this model.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
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You do kind of
have to wonder how much it costs HP to keep running
this
licensing scheme...
Well, AFAIK the only O/Ses still working on a per-user fee scale
are the DEC derived systems (OpenVMS and Tru64), SCO, and Microsoft.
Everyone else (including HP for HP-UX) went over to unlimited user
licensing in the late '90s.
Being a hobbyist, I've never had occasion to poke around in
commercial VMS licensing. Do they still enforce the machine
restrictions (i.e. machine X is a "workstation" so it can only host
up to 2 users, period, another machine with the exact same VUPS
rating is a "departmental timeshare" that can host up to N users
(with the proper licenses) . . .) 
7:39 p.m.
You do kind of
have to wonder how much it costs HP to keep running this
licensing scheme...
Well, AFAIK the only O/Ses still working on a per-user fee scale are
the DEC derived systems (OpenVMS and Tru64), SCO, and Microsoft.
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