Re: Acquiring a used IBM i Server - (repost)

On 2/3/2018 5:13 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Finally consider the many web applications where the user doesn't even
sign on, how do we count those?

I'm not aware of any operating system that has implemented any licensing
limits or restrictions for non-credentialed web-server users. By
non-credentialed, I'm referring to people who don't have OS credentials.
Not counting those people is simply an industry norm for web content and
applications.

If OS providers would have enforced limits and restrictions on web sites,
there may have never been social media, nor perhaps even an internet as we
know it today. Don't you think?

I wasn't suggesting they count them for general web activity, use of a specific application on the server would be a different matter but more likely for the application not the server.

The IBMer in question was simply pointing out that counting these users is even more difficult than counting telnet users!

Check Microsoft. How do they enforce user and device CALs on their servers??


Good question. I found a couple references saying that Microsoft doesn't
enforce CALS via software constraints, but does count on people (say
disgruntled former employees) to rat out their organizations. One
organization said that they were audited by Microsoft every year. Others
had stories about legal action, including hefty fines imposed for
non-compliance.

Yep they don't have it built into their software either so expecting that IBM would have it built into a system with a somewhat smaller user base isn't so realistic.
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