[Info-vax] Mostly off-topic: licensing methods
gah4
gah4 at u.washington.edu
Sat Jan 28 16:07:29 EST 2023
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 4:52:41 PM UTC-8, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Everybody has heard about:
> - license per server
> - license per CPU socket
> - license per CPU core
> - license per user
>
> But Oracle just invented something new: license per employee.
I haven't followed this for a while, but it used to be that Microsoft licensed by clients.
Including network clients.
And in the case of an SMTP (TCP/IP mail) server, everyone who sent mail to it counted as a client.
(They might have changed it, as that was some years ago.)
In the case of Oracle, it seems that (all?) you have to do is split the company,
such that one branch, that is separate company, does the Oracle work.
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