Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!ucsd!nosc!woodstock!dennis From: dennis@nosc.mil (Dennis Cottel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: HP400 licensing ids Message-ID: Date: 12 Dec 90 01:50:33 GMT References: <9012112347.AA23669@antares.Synopsys.COM> Sender: nobody@nosc.NOSC.MIL Lines: 23 dickhoff@Synopsys.COM (John Dickhoff) writes: > The HP400 machines support both Domain/OS and HP-UX. > We currently use Domain/OS nodeids to node-lock license > DN platforms and HP-UX ID Module ids to node-lock > license HP300 platforms. Is there a way in HP-UX > to get the Domain/OS nodeid? Is there one unique id > we can use to license both Domain/OS and HP-UX on HP400s? Please, please: do *not* use node locking! I know it seems like a good idea at first, but believe me, on a network you lose sales. How could that be? Because users can't share applications, so we won't buy into your product. For example, we would have been using Interleaf from day one of our Apollo network, but we couldn't justify a dozen or more licenses for a tool that no one really used at the time. And it made no sense to buy one or two licenses, since our users need to be able to share documents, or pass them off for another user to work on. Consequently, we used troff for years. If we could have bought a couple licenses and timeshared them, I am convinced that users' demand would have shown a need for more copies and we would now have nearly one license per workstation. Dennis Cottel, dennis@NOSC.MIL, (619) 553-1645 Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152