Well, I just heard back from them. I'll leave sending an official note to
someone at transarc, but the basic impression I got from the phone call was
that existing customers are going to be grandfathered in under a very
reasonable pricing scheme and that the newly published pricing won't really
be very relevant for existing customers.
Our sales contact says that around renewal time they'll work with support to
determine exactly how a particular site will be grandfathered in. (Don't
know how timely this will be, but hopefully quick.)
I may not have all my questions resolved at the moment, but I am no longer
nearly as concerned as I was.
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lisa Giacchetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 10:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: New AFS pricing - has anyone gotten this figured out?
>
>
> > We've also had slow responses from Transarc sales. I suspect some
> > drastic internal reorganization is going on. As far as I understand
> > the pricing structure: it's $3000+$600/year for each
> database/fileserver
> > and $50+$10/year for each computer that accesses AFS files.
> > (That is the educational price.) As far as I can tell, there's no
> > charge per principal (human user).
> >
> > John
>
>
> My group manages the AFS installation at FERMI. I have asked
> on several
> occasions about the new licensing structure and how it works with our
> old license which is a site license for several platforms. No one has
> been able to get me a sufficient answer. I had heard at one point that
> the issue for those with old contracts would be discussed in
> more detail
> when contract renewal time came up. Ours is up for renewal and we
> received a quote for it but no one contacted us about this issue.
>
> If you read the new license agreement carefully you will see that
> transarc refers to licensing a "registered entity" and then gives
> a completely unintelligible definition. When i pressed for a
> clarification,
> I was told on more than one occasion that a registered entitiy is
> a "user" that accesses AFS. In fact I was told that this could be
> determined by finding out how many entries one has in their
> KAS database. I
> pointed out many of the flaws with this method and never received a
> good reply.
>
> So - in short FERMI is in the same boat and it would be truly
> appreciated (Transarc are you listening???) if this issue was
> clarified and resolved.
>
> lisa
>
>
