RE: Serial Numbers?

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patrick Bingham
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 3:34 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Serial Numbers?

And the question is, what will ISV's do when Partition
Migration comes to IBM i? I think when applications become
as portable as Windows, Linux and AIX VM's are today,
somebody is going to have to come up with a new license key
model. Especially IBM.

Patrick Bingham

Simple! If you want to move an application between multiple machines,
you need: (1) a separate license per machine or (2) a "site" license
which is not locked to a particular machine. Of course, such a license
will cost more, even if you don't use the application any more or get
any more business use from it. <crooked grin>

We have the same problem on the z/OS system at work. In a parallel
sysplex, work can be spread over multiple machines but still present a
"single system image" to the end user. But specific work must be
directed to the machine which has the license for that product. Or a
"site" license is needed which is time locked, but not serial number
locked (we have some of these on z/OS).

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