Yup, this is more typical. I know with Citrix servers many of the
licenses had to be special multi-seat versions. At the same time, using
this for education would probably get you a good discount in addition to
the volume license discount. In particular is this clause in their
license agreement:
You may use the programs and manuals on a single computer and copy the
programs for back up purposes in support of your use of the programs on
a single computer, provided all copyright and other proprietary notices
are included on such copy, and true and accurate records of such copy
are kept. The term "Use", used above, shall not include the right to
replicate, redistribute, broadcast or perform in public the sound files
generated by the ACAPELA Text-to-speech technologies for commercial
purposes. This specific type of use of ACAPELA TTS technology is subject
to a separate licensing agreement.
I think they could reasonably argue that you're not using it on just one
computer and/or you are redistributing/broadcasting (to your thin
clients) the audio generated by the software.
CB
E.J. Zufelt wrote:
I'm not familiar with the voices that you're using. But I'd read the
lisence carefully, I bet that it is a per seat / user lisence, not a
per computer lisence.
Everett
On 29-Jan-09, at 12:25 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
No, because it is on one Mac, not fifty.
Thanks,
Alex,
On 28-Jan-09, at 8:19 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good evening,
Wouldn't you still need 50 lisences if the voice was being used by
50 users?
Everett
On 29-Jan-09, at 12:02 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
The IBM's use Ubuntu via the LTSP project. It is cheaper than
putting 50+ Mac Mini's because the maintance would be high.
Also, we are planning to buy one lisence of Infovox's Spanish Voice
for use by all the students.
Thanks,
Alex,
On 28-Jan-09, at 8:13 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I haven't seen a Citrix-like solution for the Mac but I've been
out of the enterprise space for some time. Are you sure it will be
a lower cost than just putting 50 Mac Minis without screens in
place? How do the thin clients work? You might be dependent on IBM
for a solution since it's their clients that need to share to the
Mac server.
CB
Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
I am looking at setting up a computer lab for Visually Impaired
students. It is Voiceover/Linux Driven, and any assistance is
greatly appreciated. A list of hardware i below:
50+ IBM Thin Clients
1 network server (possibly virtual)
1 Mac Pro with eight cores and 16 GB RAM.
Now my question is that I need to setup virtual sessesions from
each TC to the Mac to use Voiceover. The problem is that the only
software that will do that is FreeNX which isn't available for
the Mac yet. Is there any solutions. FreeNX will include support
for Mac in version 4.0, but in the meantime I would appreciate
any free solutions.
Thanks,
Alex,
