>On 9/4/07, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In general, I'd suggest not even attempting to do what you're >> apparently trying to do. As a customer, I get highly annoyed when >> some node-locked software fails after hardware upgrade, and I'll do >> just about anything to repair the situation. >> >> Usually, that procedure involves not buying such software in the first >> place. > >Thanks James for speaking up for us. We had a vendor wanting to >charge us US$30k for moving to a new license server when the old one >died (generation of new license file, manpower for re-install et. al). > We hacked up an LD_PRELOAD solution in about 30 minutes to get around >that.
Sun has generally been much more reasonable than that for its FlexLM licenses; still, a new license file is required. (And I remember having multiple vendors all with their own FlexLM license daemons as part of the package and the general issues with interoperability of different versions). Casper _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list [email protected]
