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- From: lawrence@combdyn.portal.com (Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen)
- Subject: Re: HELP! db_Vista needed!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.181023.25044@combdyn.portal.com>
- Organization: Combustion Dynamics Ltd.
- References: <1992Sep11.144002.29322@compu.com> <1992Sep13.042711.23843@omrongw.wg.omron.co.jp> <1992Sep13.171238.2244@compu.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:10:23 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <1992Sep13.171238.2244@compu.com> fr@compu.com (Fred Rump from home) writes:
- >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.
- >
- Our company hasn't signed a license agreement yet, we're still hashing it out
- with Raima. Two years ago we had in writing that we could port any application
- developed using db_Vista to any UNIX platform. This is important since
- our main client at the time was National Defense, and they require any
- application they get to run on all their machines.
-
- Another problem is that the machines we do development on are purchased
- under contract. We tend not to know what UNIX box we'll be developing on
- each year. It started out Xenix/386, then Interactive UNIX on a 386,
- then a 486....then up until the last moment we thought it was going to be SGI,
- but suddenly it was HP. Then we there are Motorola's. DRE has Suns, Convex,
- and many other UNIX systems....I have no idea what the Americans or the
- British are using for UNIX systems, but if they buy our software they'll
- want it to run on their machine....as opposed to having to buy an Interactive
- Unix BOX....(this machine).
-
- Of course with all the bugs and the fact we paid two years support, and
- all we got was an update that didn't fix any of our problems. Lame support
- (oh its a bug, we'll fix it in the next release...after the next release...
- oh its a limitation, you'll have to work around it).....
-
- They also changed our license on us....we started out with a One machine,
- Two Developer License....then we went to Two machines with Two Developers
- per machine. Their new license agreement says one developer per machine now.
- Suddenly two people in the company aren't allowed to develop with RDM???
-
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