On Monday, 04/04/2005 at 01:25 AST, Joe Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...which brings us around to Vendor negotiations. I doubt if any of the > software products Tom mentioned could make use of 6 or even 8 of the > available CPUs, let alone all 32. As part of your licensing > negotiations, you configure the Linux instance with the number of CPUs > it can use, which should be the basis of your licensing issues. If you > want 2 CPUs, you buy 2 licenses. Sure, we're back on the honor system, > but Vendors are capable of arriving at equitable solutions when > properly approached. After all, in the world of Linux, there are > alternatives to just about every product, and nobody wants to lose a > customer.
I should have explicitly stated that "Terms and Conditions" are whatever you negotiate them to be. What the vendors publish is the starting point of the discussion. All vendors are interested in successful customers, and I think most will work with a customer to help them achieve that success. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
