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- From: brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Question Regarding Solaris RTU Licensing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.133756@siisun.epfl.ch>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:37:56 GMT
- References: <BxvIxz.5qn@trc.amoco.com> <1992Nov18.222321.10382@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- In article <1992Nov18.222321.10382@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
- |> In article <BxvIxz.5qn@trc.amoco.com> zclc09@npbu018.hou.amoco.com writes:
- |> >I have a question regarding licensing Sun Solaris RTU's for X-Terminals.
- |> >I am considering purchasing a number of X-Terminals as an alternative to
- |> >placing a Sun workstation on every desktop. I am confused as to whether
- |> >I need to purchase any additional RTU's for the operating system from
- |> >Sun for these new systems.
-
- Sun machines as delivered come with a RTU of two users. If you add
- Xterminal, one may assume that each one represents one more user of
- the server hence, one more RTU to buy. The fact that this is not
- enforced by the OS doesn't change the legal aspect of it.
-
- |> X terminals don't run SunOS (or Solaris, or whatever you want to call it).
- |> Therefore they don't need a license.
-
- Nothing to do with it, since they don't have an OS, then it implies
- that users log in to the server.
-
- |>
- |> >I spoke to a Sun sales rep. who advised me to go ahead and purchase
- |> >additional RTU's.
- |>
- |> Sounds like this particular sales rep. should be avoided in future if
- |> the advice was to buy them from Sun. For starters, Sun won't (currently)
- |> sell you software, even RTUs, for hardware they didn't sell. Last time I
- |> looked, X terminals weren't on the Sun price list.
-
- Rather you just misunderstood the issue, the RTU are for the users
- on the server, not for using the Xterminals.
-
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- Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
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