[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-08-10 kl. 19:47, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 8/10/2021 1:30 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <serhfr$f1o$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris <chris-nospam at tridac.net> 
>> writes:
>>
>>>   Even Oracle make their os's free to use none commercially,
>>>   with again, the money made via support contracts.
>>
>> Unless there has been a big change, that is NOT true of Rdb.
> 
> But then Rdb is not an OS ...
> 
>>                                                              At least
>> at one time one could download a kit (not the latest) with no support if
>> one were DEVELOPING a COMMERCIAL application.  While that is
>> non-commercial (as long as it doesn't make money), it is a SMALL subset
>> of non-commercial use and definitely NOT some sort of hobbyist or
>> community license.
> 
> Oracle allows free development for a lot of their products.
> 

I think that is generally true for any product in the "Enterprise" class.
There is an Enterprise version of Oracle "classic" and any Rdb version
(there is really only one for each platform) is always "Enterprise".
So Rdb is always free for your development system, as I understand.
Test and prod is differnt and with weird rules.

We where quoted for Rdb on a new 2 CPU DS25 Alpha test system. Oracle
claimed that the lowest quote was 25 "users" per CPU or 50 users in
our case. For a test box with at most 2 developers testing new stuff.
That project was canned, Rdb was about 5 times the VMS cost and 10
times the cost of the DS25 hardware. For a test system...

The reason for the 2 CPU DS25 as a test system is that this box is
also the backup system for the prod environment. It must be configured
the same was as the normal prod system...



> Arne