OT: further SCO odd licensing...

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Esak propounded (on Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 08:52:06AM -0400):
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| Incidentally, since:
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|    LA260-UX00-6.0, 4 cpu, 4Gb
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| means that 4Gb of disk space is required to load the full system(s) found on
| the Media Kit which, by the way, not unimportantly, is _another_ catalog
| item entirely... of:
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|    CA200-UX04-6.0
| 
| what if the 4 cpu designation means you need 4 CPU's to run this license?
| :-) The smiley indicates clearly that this obviously is NOT the case. But,
| on a more serious note, what if this is just another min/max type
| notification, and it is indicating that it can work "up to" 4 cpu's but is
| really good or "licensed" for 1 CPU? Do I need to look for an additional SMP
| license as was required in the past? Or is this truly a license for 4 CPU's?
| I'm now beginning to wonder. I'll call again, just to be sure.

The media kit has been a separate SKU under OSR 5 as well, nothing new
there.  (To set up several servers, an organization doesn't need more than
one media kit.)

Whereas the base 5.0.x Enterprise Edition licensed 1 CPU and 5 users,
the base 6.0.0 Enterprise license allows 10 users and 4 CPUs.  There is
a CPU license available for each additional processor beyond the first
four.

The '4Gb' at the end of the LA260-UX00 item does not refer to disk
space; it means that the base license allows the OS to recognize (up to)
4Gb of RAM.  There are licenses (non-additive, BTW) required to make use
of 8, 16, 32 or 64 GB of RAM.

-- 
JP