>We will at the point when a new (non 9 boot) machine comes in the door be >forced to either: >purchase a complete set of software licenses for it (that run under X) or >upgrade one set of existing licenses to X - either way there is (as I >mentioned before) a significant $$ out lay.
How about the idea I have stated elsewhere... don't buy new. Buy a used Mac. There are TONS of them out there. You will save big dollars on your hardware purchase, and you won't need to worry about license upgrades. Besides, if you don't want to buy a new license... that means you have no real plans to install additional hardware... so you assume that your current hardware is going to break down to an unrecoverable point before you have a fixed need or desire to upgrade the software anyway. Barring that, what is your alternative? Buy a PC? Run Windows? You are still faced with all new software costs, only now you are saddled with additional admin requirements. I see that as a step in the wrong direction. >Currently we use keyserver to handle licensing, so upgrading one set of >application licenses for X means less available licenses for other users. Why is that? Most app vendors probably don't care if you buy a current license, and use an older product under it. As long as you are still only running one copy per license. If in doubt, contact the vendor, explain your situation... I think you might find them surprisingly co-operative. This is of course assuming you are doing some kind of a user license and not a seat license. That is, you have one copy of the software on a server, and are licensed to have up to X number of users running that copy. In these situations, most vendors will probably let you buy a license for the newer software, and when it isn't in use, allow it to be used against the older software. If you are in fact dealing with a per seat license (one copy on each machine), then this whole thing is pointless... as if you add a machine, it doesn't matter if it is OS X, or System 0.97, you still need to buy an entire new license. So what difference will it make what OS level you buy that license for... it is still assigned to the one machine it is installed on. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
