Funnily enough I was looking at this yesterday! From what I understand
about the SGD licenses they are for concurrent users but you don't use
one license per application. You can buy a 'windows' license, a 'unix'
license or a 'both' license. If a user is concurrently running dtterm,
gedit, firefox on unix they will use one unix license. If they also
open MSOffice (say) then at that point they will also require a
'windows' license.
As a side issue to connect to windows you'll need the correct
arrangement of Windows Client Access Licenses and Terminal Services
Client Access Licenses - but that is another world of pain!
http://docs.sun.com/source/820-2550/licensing.html
See the section on 'User-based Licenses'
Hope this helps.
A
P.S. Sorry this is a bit off the Sun Ray topic.
Ceri Davies wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:36:12PM +0100, Bjoern Rost wrote:
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 16:03, Dan Allongo wrote:
the point of purchasing the licensed seats is for official support
(and by association, a live production environment).
actually as far as I understood (and I did try very hard), the perpetual
RTU license doesn't provide you with support. You'll have to buy an
extra support subscription (available in basic, standard and premium).
Also, it is bound to a specific SRSS release (upgrade is only allowed
with valid support contract). This is the 'old' model. So you'd have a
perpetual license per DTU (or concurrent user) and an annual (or
multi-year) support contract.
Having purchased in .uk in the last 3 months, I can say this much, based
on what we actually got (although I'm a .edu customer, so paid next to
nothing):
SRSS licenses are perpetual on a concurrent connection basis, so you need
one per connected DTU to be legal, but none whatsoever for things to
function. Licenses are not bound to specific SRSS releases [1].
Support is paid annually, on a per license basis.
There is a VDI license, which gets you the above, plus one SGD
license, plus a VMware VDI connector license, for a negligible amount
extra on top of the base SRSS license. The SGD license is for
concurrent use of a single SGD based application, so if a single user is
running, say, dtterm and Windows at the same time, that "uses" two
licenses. Someone previously suggested here that the SGD license part
of the VDI bundle was restricted to a subset of applications - for .edu
at least, it is not.
[1] At least, nobody has asked us what version of SRSS we are running.
Ceri
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