A couple of years ago I asked this question of a Foxboro V.P. at a user's
group meeting question/answer session. I was told that this was a
'marketing decision' made by Foxboro, which means: no, you don't really need
a new license, that's just the way they have decided to do things. I gather
that this policy has not changed.
This policy has hindered the usefulness of our system by keeping it locked
into out of date, slow computers compared to the rest of our business
systems which have been continually upgraded.
>We have talked about upgrading the boxes to the latest AW51s (series D or
E)
>to speed things up. Unfortunately we are being quoted $100,000 by Foxboro.
>What makes this worse is that we know we can buy the boxes from Sun direct
>for 30% of the Foxboro price and Foxboro are charging us $50,000 for
>software licenses. Foxboro are not being very helpful at this time. When we
>proposed buying the boxes from Sun, Foxboro refused to support these boxes.
>We are wondering if it is technically possible to buy the new boxes from
Sun
>and try to load the existing software on ourselves. This would mean that we
>are using the same software licenses but should get a better performance.
We
>have asked Foxboro about this and been told that it is not possible because
>we need to buy new licenses from Sun. We have asked Sun about this and they
>have told us that we do not need new licenses but they do not know if this
>would work.
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