OT: SCO SMP licensing....any SCO guru's remaining out ther eon this list?

[Brian K. White]

On 7/16/2010 5:21 PM, John Esak wrote:
> In 6.0, a large number of CPU's is granted for free.  I think.
>
> In 5.6, one had to purchase an SMP license for the number of CPU's being
> used.
>
> What is the deal in 5.7?  I was told that 5.7 is allocated up to 4 CPU's for
> its SMP use without any extra licensing. Is this correct?
>
> If a license is needed for one extra CPU, total of two... What the hell
> could it cost?  I seem to remember a $90 charge for something.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John

I think the free cpu's in 507 might only be for multi-core cpus in a 
single physical cpu. If you had a single physical cpu with 2 or 4 full 
cores (not just hyperthreading, which _also_ shows up as multiple cpus), 
you install the smp package early in the fresh install process before 
any other update, just as if you'd purchased it, but don't actually 
license it, (you need the software physically to exist, and you need all 
the subsequent OS updates to update it), and even unlicensed it 
activates and makes full use of whatever cores are in your cpu. mpstat 
works etc.

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bkw