Mike,
compare pricing to an X server package like eXceed or
Reflection/X and I'm sure you'll find the price very nice, indeed.
Especially considering that tring to run a typical X package over a WAN
or other slow network is damn near impossible! The free version works
fine - for the Enterprise, you are paying for extra features. We
consider the pricing of Enterprise to be a steal!
I, too, missed any announcement of the Enterprise version for Unix, if
indeed there was one...
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Miller
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:57 PM
To: VNC List
Subject: VNC Enterprise Edition for Unix
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Lou Kamenov wrote:
> Is there such thing as VNC Enterprise Edition for FreeBSD, theres one
> for Linux alright?
Thanks for pointing out that the Unix Enterprise Editions (Solaris,
Linux
and HP/UX) are now available. If there was an announcement, I missed
it.
I am a little disappointed at the per-unix-desktop licensing scheme.
For
one desktop I would pay $50. For ten I would pay $39.00 each. For 100,
I
would pay $17.40 each. For 500, I would pay $5.88 each. For more than
500, I'd have to haggle, I guess. On the bright side, this applies to
multiple computers. For example, I could have two servers with 50
desktops each or 10 severs with 10 desktops each and the price is the
same
because it's a total of 100 desktops.
This leads to a fairly obvious question: How does the licence key work
with Xvnc to keep a limit on the total number of desktops when the
desktops are running on multiple machines? Is there an honor system, or
is there a phone-home system? Just wondering how it works.
I have had students who create a bunch of desktops for some foolish
reason, like maybe they forgot their password. Couldn't that cause
problems if we only have a license for 10 desktops and we have 10
running,
but someone gets confused and makes a few more?
By the way, VNC staff should note that the Solaris tar.gz file comes
with
a zero-byte LICENCE.txt file.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Mike
--
Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health
and Institute of Human Genetics
University of Minnesota
http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/
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