OT: further SCO odd licensing...

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:27:18AM -0400, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> 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.

And people wonder why we like Linux and BSD...  

:-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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