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From: dennis@PEANUTS.NOSC.MIL (Dennis Cottel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SR10 diagnostics
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Date: 14 Nov 88 17:16:15 GMT
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> From: David B. Funk <dbfunk@icaen.uiowa.edu>
> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 88 23:04:44 CST 
> 
> The NLS licenses are node locked to the server node that you
> designate. If you want to replace your server node, you have to get a
> whole new set of "hooks" and "keys" issued. Imagine ALL your licensed
> software held hostage by a few server nodes.

At a recent CASE conference I was busily recommending to the various
vendors that they consider Apollo's NLS for their products.  The
president of one company said that they had rejected using it for just
this reason.

	Dennis Cottel  Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA  92152
	(619) 553-1645      dennis@nosc.MIL      sdcsvax!noscvax!dennis