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- From: mark@spider.co.uk (Mark Valentine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Question Regarding Solaris RTU Licensing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.124033.12076@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 12:40:33 GMT
- References: <BxvIxz.5qn@trc.amoco.com> <1992Nov18.222321.10382@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1992Nov19.133756@siisun.epfl.ch>
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- In article <1992Nov19.133756@siisun.epfl.ch> brossard@sic.epfl.ch writes:
- > 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.
-
- *My* sun rep carefully explained to me that I only needed additional RTUs for
- users connected via direct serial lines. Ptys are free! I assumed that the
- logic behind this is that network users must already be sat at a SPARCstation
- for which they already have a licence...
-
- Mark.
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