On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:05:10 -0500, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote: >I know everyone has issues with the various ways that vendors handle their >licensing. > ><SoapBox> has to do with vendor products during a disaster situation. Some >products will work fine without license code changes (very few), other >products will work for a few days with annoying warning messages (again only a >few), and others (too many) require that a temporary license code be acquired >from the vendor before the DR system can even be IPL'd since their products >will not work at all. > ... ></SoapBox> > After a corporate acquisition several years ago, the acquiring vendor swiftly mandated that employees of the acquired firm remove all software license keys from acquired products.
Unexpected. That vendor must have had memories of an irate customer. Or of the irate customer's lawyers. The risk of an inadvertent noncompliance with a service guarantee could be enormous. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
