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- From: fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: HELP! db_Vista needed!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.171238.2244@compu.com>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 17:12:38 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.010305.1532@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp> <1992Sep11.144002.29322@compu.com> <1992Sep13.042711.23843@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp>
- Organization: CompuData Inc.
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- tnishi@kansas.Berkeley.EDU (NISHIYAMA Tetsuto) writes:
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- > There is an application that we are interested in buying that
- >apparently uses db_VISTA or Raima data manager as it seems to be
- >called now...we are planning on having the application ported to
- >our Unix based platform...if the makers of the application using this
- >database do the porting and we get ONLY the Binary code that they
- >ported for us, does our division still have to buy a liscence?
-
- Raima is presently in the mode of getting their developers to sign a new
- license agreement. It basically attempts to qualify what is what as far as
- platforms and operating systems go. I do not agree with their view of life
- that SCO UNIX, for example, would be different from the Dell SysV 4.x version
- of UNIX. There is binary compatibility there and both run on the same hardware
- base. I would have no problem paying an additional fee if we were to port to
- HP/UNIX on HP hardware but the Intel world is designed to be the most open of
- all worlds and that is why we all tend to gravitate to it. I'm not about to
- assist anyone in attempting to differentiate one Intel box from another just
- so that the software vendor can make more money.
-
- Bottom line to your question. If the manufacturer of the application pays for
- the new development license (IE stays legal), and you then purchase his
- application, you have nothing to do with Raima and owe them no money
- whatsoever. My clients don't even know who or what Raima is. You would be in
- the same boat. It would be up to your vendor/developer to worry about these
- things.
-
- Fred
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