Exactly. It's been a while since I've been involved with RedBack, or
been involved in the contracts, but webshares are paid for as part of
RedBack, not UV or UD, aren't they? Dollars lost on the DB side are
gained on the RedBack side. Since our Vendor De Jour owns both pieces,
they don't mind. It's just illegal for anyone else to use that same
technological trick, right. I am impressed that anyone, without
license pooling, can get adequate performance without doing something
like what RedBack does.
All this is a bit artificial & hard to enforce. Archaic might be a
better word. What would Temenos do if Rocket made RedBack work with
jBASE? How do other (non-MV) DBMS companies handle this? By making
their base product more expensive to start with? By charging by some
other mechanism than number of concurrent users? Size of hardware
platform it runs on? I think most don't really care about connectivity
to their product, let alone price by it.
You have WEBSHARES... Those are your 'pooling' elements!
DW
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