>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> writes:
>> From: Todd D. Taft [mailto:[email protected]] >> >> Was there any official announcement of this, or are you just looking at >> the license on the 6.2u6 download page? I don't remember seeing >> anything about this on the SGE mailing list recently, although there >> was a discussion of rumors a few months ago... Edward> Here's how it went: Edward> I had been in touch with LSF sales folks for quite some time, Edward> and had informed them they were up against SGE. After a year Edward> of delaying, we hadn't bought LSF, and had rolled out SGE, so Edward> now LSF wants to make sure I know the ways in which LSF is Edward> better than SGE, to justify the cost and effort. Edward> Yesterday, I got a phone call from the LSF sales guy, telling Edward> me that SGE isn't free anymore. I thanked him, and I need to Edward> look into it, and by googling around, sure enough, there were Edward> many news articles on various sources a few weeks ago, when Edward> 6.2u6 was released. For whatever reason, the news articles Edward> never seemed to get a lot of coverage. Maybe because it's Edward> such a small number of people who would care. Edward> But by searching for downloads, it's confirmed, if you Edward> download 6.2u6, there are new license terms which are Edward> different from the license terms for 6.2u5. Edward> I plan to call Oracle today, and find out how much it costs. Edward> We're currently running 6.2u5, so there's not a lot of Edward> motivation to change or upgrade anything. But I'd like to Edward> know. If you're looking for another alternative to LSF/SGE, take a look at RTDA's (http://rtda.com) NC job scheduler. They're a small company, *very* responsive to requests and bug fixes and not bad in pricing. They have some wierd ideas about job scheduling systems with lazy EDA engineers, but they're coming around. *grin* My $WORK is a customer and I'm the primary support guy for it and it's really quite good. Some warts, but nothing bad. We did a wholesale migration from LSF and haven't looked back. John _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
