RE: Software licensing again

Posted in 2005

Topics: Licensing & Editions, Platform-Specific Issues

Alexey Sonkin — Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:59:08 -0500 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Neil, I asked IBM sales people about Informix licensing recently. They told me, that most IBM products (including Informix) are licensed 'per socket', not per 'cpu core' and not even per 'virtual cpu' It means, that we'll be safe with milt-core and multi-threaded CPU's expected soon -Alexey > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On > Behalf Of Neil Truby > > A comment from Art made us at Ardenta think about an announement on the > Informix pages of the IBM website that IBM would demand a 2-cpu licence for > each physical cpu of a certain type in Solaris boxes. I can't remmeber many > of the details - maybe this was last summer? Anyway I can't find any such > thing on the website now. > > Anyone know what I'm on about ....? > > thanks > Neil > sending to informix-list

↪ replying to Alexey Sonkin

Neil Truby — Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:10:20 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Alexey Sonkin" <alexeis@grandvirtual.com> wrote in message news:1110219059.5e03affba0292958f765354f65717c63@teranews... > > Neil, > > I asked IBM sales people about Informix licensing recently. > > They told me, that most IBM products (including Informix) > are licensed 'per socket', not per 'cpu core' and not > even per 'virtual cpu' > > It means, that we'll be safe with milt-core and multi-threaded > CPU's expected soon > > -Alexey I think you'll find that this is bollocks, Alexey.