An additional issue is what *kind* of licenses you need
People working with requirements/high level design/documentation can usually
get away with a "Modeller" edition. Programmers requiring to generate code
will probably need their specific language edition.
The problem is that you cannot have multiple editions installed on a single
machine at any given moment in time. So, if you have 10 programmers and 10
PM's/requirements/high level design people, you could probably think of 5
"modeller" licenses and a (higher) number of "your language here" edition
models.
In my experience, more people than you actually think can use the "modeller"
edition of rose: In an average project, a lot of people use Rose for
requirements, using pre-made designs and *documentation*. In a lot of our
projects, only a handful of people actually use the code-generation
features, even though everybody uses rose.
Since we are a consulting company, we have solved this by setteling on
"Modeller" and "Enterprise" edition only. Since we work in all languages,
purchasing "J" editions or similar does not make sense, especially since it
can create license shortages for "specific" types of licenses. Currently our
enterprise editions outnumber the modeller, but that's only because we're
still rolling out rose. In another few months I am quite sure we'll have 2:1
in Modeller's favour. Quite a few of our Modeller editions are node-locked,
because a lot of requirements-people need to work off-site with their
licenses.
I really think Rational is producing too many different versions of Rose, at
least considering the inflexibility of their floating licenses scheme. It
wouldn't surprise me if they would reduce costs by reducing the number of
variations to 2 or 3 and a simpler price structure, but that's just my guess
;)
Kristian
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Polack
To: John Jairo Cortes Montoya; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 23.01.01 21:43
Subject: Re: (ROSE) license calculate
You should buy as many licenses as a number of your developers who will
need
to use Rose at the same time. Note the word "need", not "want". For
example,
if all twenty need to use Rose at the same time, you need twenty (20)
licenses. If, however, only five (5) will be using Rose simultaneously,
you
can get away with five (5).
To calculate your ROI (Return-On-Investment) just ask yourself the
following
questions:
1) Are your human resources cheaper than the software tools? For
example,
if your loaded (direct+overhead costs) person-hour are $100 and you have
10
developers waiting 1 hour per week, you have just wasted $1,000 in one
week.
How long before the 'break-even" point?
2) Will your project experience any delays due to some developers
waiting
for a license?
3) Will your developers experience significant frustrations if they
can't
get to Rose when they need to?
I am sure, someone in this forum will be able to add to this list.
Regards,
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Jairo Cortes Montoya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:57 AM
Subject: (ROSE) license calculate
>
> Hi group.
>
>
> We will have a team of aprox 20 person using rose to desing and
develop.
How
> many floating license should we buy.There's any relation between
number of
> person to work and floating license. I think that 5 will be
sufficient.
Am'I
> rigth?, if not how can I calculate the rigth amount (even more,
thinking
> that Rose isn't inexpensive)
>
> thanks a lot
>
>
>
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