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- From: allebrandi@inland.com (Tom Allebrandi)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Will lmf kill alpha?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.140033.2240@inland.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 14:00:33 CST
- References: <9208191732.AA11146@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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- In article <9208191732.AA11146@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, HGK@PTBIB.BITNET (Hans G. Kerkhoff, PTB Institut Berlin) writes:
- > My understanding is that VMS and ultrix is not widely used in universities and
- > other research institutions compared to other unix derivations because of the
- > administrative overhead caused by correctly using lmf.
-
- In a word - poppycock! The "distaste" for VMS and Ultrix was in place long
- before the introduction of the LMF.
-
- > administrative overhead caused by correctly using lmf.
-
- If you want to talk about administrative overhead, open your eyes. We
- just went through a main CPU upgrade for our VAX/VMS cluster. For the
- most part, for those products which needed new licenses, the LMF
- managed products came right up; the non-LMF managed products gave us
- some form of trouble.
-
- Many, many, many, of our third party software vendors are providing
- some form of license management and access control. Most of them are
- inventing their own schemes rather than use the LMF - even for products
- that are designed to run only in a VAX/VMS environment.
-
- I can kind of understand creating your own license management system if
- your product is targeted for mutiple hardware/software platforms. But,
- the bottom line is that we have about 15 different license management
- schemes active in our cluster - three of which require an active
- detached process running all the time!
-
- Talk about administrative overhead!
-
- --- Tom
- Tom Allebrandi | Mail guru - DECUS UUCP Development Team
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