Hi Bill I raised that there are 2 options, per user or per processor. For a web site you would select the per processor model. I was generalizing licenses and was trying to point out that licensing is complex for all platforms and costs are not always as cheap as they may seem. There are gotchas in all databases that many users are not aware of. I am aware that there is a clampdown by database providers who are facing a sales slump and are going through checking people have legitimately used their licenses and they are finding breaches. IBM's audit of U2 licenses related to pooling would have coincided with audit checks of other IBM databases. One vendors license agreement allows the vendor to walk into sites for inspections and audits are at the clients costs. There are suppliers who believe they are losing up to 30% of their revenue to breaches of licenses so this is not a minor issue to them.
However the main point I was raising was that we needed to find a middle position on pooling where both IBM and the customer were getting a fair price for license use. What have people done to raise the problems with licensing at IBM. We have a user group and the Better and Better site. If there is a better alternative to licensing for pooling, then let us put a business case together and present it rather than just complaining. U2 does not want to lose sites to another vendor because the licensing model does not work. I know that the issues of SAAS has been raised with IBM and if my memory serves me correct, I believe that IBM realised there was a problem and suggested that such situations should be discussed with them to find a solution. Regards David Jordan _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
