So the question should be, who should bear the cost of that? The vendor, who has no control over the choices, or the site that wants to run the software?
Unfortunately, this whole thread has sparked a heated debate internally here. There are those that are for scrapping the licensing code, and those that want it increased so that it's tighter with an easier way to extend things, (which seems counter productive to me). As with most arguments, the ones that develop the code have one mindset, and the ones that support the code have another, with the one that don't do either sitting on the fence cheering for blood:). Brian On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:55:37 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg <hal9...@panix.com> wrote: >At 20:42 -0600 on 12/29/2011, Brian Westerman wrote about Re: cpu / >machine identification: > >>We have DR support in our software, but I was under the impression >>that most of the DR sites were running the OS under VM and they >>simulated the serial anyway. >> >>I suppose their are sites that do not run the DR under VM, but don't >>the sites who don't run under VM know the serial number ahead of >>time, and wouldn't it be already built into the software, or they >>have a already setup job to enter the new serial(s)? I know I would >>have it set up if it were me. > >Knowing the Serial Number of the machine you are going to run DR on >and having it already built into the software is being too >optimistic. Not only can you have multiple DR Sites to go to and >choosing one based on who can service you when you need DR Services >but even if it was only one site, I am sure that they have multiple >machines and you would not want to list all of them. Until you get >there, you would not know which machine that is going to be assigned >to you. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
