Atro Tossavainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am told by our sales reptile that licenses for AFS servers running on
> Linux or NT are half the price of "standard" UNIX AFS server licenses.
> Now whether that's reasonable is debatable... Our poor university finds
> all AFS licensing outrageously expensive, but 50% of outrageously
> expensive is not quite as bad as 100% :-)
> As far as I can see, AFS 3.6 is fully ported to Linux (RH6.x, with
> recent 2.2 series kernel and glibc2.1), server and client.
> I'm even going to deploy one as soon as I get around to do the
> shopping...
> Can you please tell me what I am missing here? I must be stupid or
> something.
Those of us who have had site licenses for all platforms for ages *should*
have gotten the Linux licenses along with, but Transarc changed the
licensing for the "new" platforms specifically to try to make us pay more
money.
*mutter*
(Yeah, I found this mildly annoying.)
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
