RE: Counting users - rip-off

["JIM LANGSTON" <JLANGSTON@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is?  Not as far as I've seen.

Lets take WinNT for example.  I buy a 10 user license, I can use that one of
two ways,
my choice (this is before Microsoft is going to change everything).  I can
use them
per pc, or per server.

Per server says that one license is used for each PC connect to the NT
server.  Not
how many PCs I have in my network.

Even Per PC means I have one for each unique PC that connects to the server.
If I
elect to go per PC, and have 20 PCs, 10 with licenses 10 without, that's
fine.

The licensing scheme in discussion here, however, says that I would need to
buy 20
licenses even though the other 10 never connected to the NT server.

The licensing scheme here says that they are required to have one license
for every
user on their system, not every user that uses their software.

Regards,

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of alan shore
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:35 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: RE: Counting users - rip-off


Why do you consider this a rip-off. Purchasing licenses for a predetermined
number of users is one of the market norms, for ANY platform

>>> "Berg, Dan" <berg@scdatacenter.com> 07/31/01 02:51PM >>>

and may we ask who this vendor is so that we can steer clear of them? :)


-----Original Message----- From: Larry Bolhuis [mailto:lbolhuis@arbsol.com]
Subject: Re: Counting users

>  BTW I got a call from one of my customers a few weeks back. They were
>being hounded by their software vendor because they had exceeded the
>number of users. Not the number in the software, the number of USER
>PROFILES on the system!!  Seems their agreement doesn't limit the number
>of users in their software (each of which must be enrolled in order to
>utilize it) but the number on the box! So all the email users (yes the
>AS/400 has happily been their mail server since 1999) get counted
>against the software even though they have *SIGNOFF for their initial
>program!! The issue has not been resolved yet but the customer believes
>they are abiding by the spirit of the agreement though not the letter of
>it.  (Wish I'd thought of it, almost 50 users BUILT IN! What a revenue
>stream.)
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