NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/sun/admin/9695

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!welchgate.welch.jhu.edu!johnj
From: [e-mail] (John A. Johnston)
Subject: Re: SunPro/Tech software licensing...
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Keywords: sunc++3.0.1, Sunc2.0, sparcworks, licensing
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Welch Medical Library
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:00:56 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Per Andersson) writes:
>If, for example SUN, were serious about this, the licence manager would
>be included in the system, and for FREE. So every vendor didn't include
>thei own licence manager, a little bit different than the other. And as
>for the one SUN uses, it has a smallest timeframe for how long you allocate
>a license, which is 15 or 30 minutes. Just so you need to buy double the
>amount of licenses you really need. Who has a compile that take 15 minutes ?
>SUN and the others for that has to get their act together soon, or else we
>all vill be running VMS on Alphas soon. At least VMS works, and has the
>basic tools needed included. And it even works in clusters.

Sounds like a plan. The 3rd party sw situation is a dog in other areas
at times, mostly pc stuff entering Unix.

Getting it done right *with* high quality, and serving the customer
with the red carpet treatment works, look at the success of Saturn
cars.  This probably translates to the computer scenario.  Our Alpha is
getting plenty of praise and our Suns are approaching 4 years ...