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Subject: Re: What price C++ ???
Keywords: C++, money, marketing, sales
Message-ID: <1989Jun29.062656.6307@lth.se>
Date: 29 Jun 89 06:26:56 GMT
References: <50@eileen.samsung.com> <5668@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: dag@Control.LTH.Se (Dag Bruck)
Organization: Dept. of Automatic Control, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden
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In article <5668@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
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>Several of us in my office had been hoping that we could get a site license
>so that we could put C++ on all our development machines

You should also note that the licence does not cover workstation networks
explicitly.  Speaking with Diane Leigh at AT&T Unix Europe (our distributor),
she agrees that this is a problem, in particular for universities ($300/CPU)
where workstation networks are common.

The interpretation that has been used before essentially goes as follows:

	- A "CPU" can mean a common file server.

	- With a single licence, neither source nor binary code may
	  be stored on other computers.

	- Other workstations may "access" the C++ compiler on the
	  workstation, e.g., load it into memory for execution.

	- If you have different sorts of workstations in your network,
	  multiple binary images may be compiled from a single source,
	  but must still reside on a single file server.

Please take this information with a grain of salt:

	- I may have mis-interpreted Diane.  I will send her a copy of
	  this posting, and post corrections if required.

	- The AT&T "workstation policy" may of course change, and Diane
	  warned me that her information had to be double-checked.

Dag Michael Bruck
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