Re: 515 and 525 user licensing

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My understanding is that those users would need only Domino licenses, no 
i5/OS entitlement.. *UNLESS* The domino applications.use DB2 through 
DECS or what have you.

Pete: Does you brain list to the right like mine does right now? :-)

- Larry


ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> And how about simple Domino mail users accessing a Domino server that
> resides on a 515 or 525?
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> Just to add more to the mix (and Larry is right on with his
> information.  He must have sat through the same, agonizingly detailed BP
> presentations as I did) .
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> If you are running a Linux LPAR, you don't need UE's for any users (real
> or imagined) that access resources within the partition.  So, if you had
> a PHP app running against a MySQL database within that partition, you
> need no UE's.  None.  If, however, you access System i resources (DB for
> example) then UE's apply.
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> Where things get interesting is if you have an IXA/IXS running Windows
> accessing the System i then do you pay for Windows CAL's and System i
> UE's?  I can't remember, but perhaps I dozed off during that part.
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> The reality here, and Larry said it, is this is based in large part in
> System i owners policing themselves.  Given the way they have structured
> the licensing there is no automated way they could ever count "persons".
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> Pete Helgren
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> albartell wrote:
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