Re: Is NAS 150 layered or SIP?

From: Alan Frisbie (Usenet01REMOVE_at_Flying-Disk.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:52:31 -0800

Jeff Goodwin wrote:

> NAS licenses are Category 2, thus redesignatable (transferable only within
> the same legal entity) or relicensable from one legal entity to another
> within a Corporate Group.
>
> http://licensing.hp.com/swl/view.slm?page=transfer
> and
> http://licensing.hp.com/swl/view.slm?page=xfer
>
> NAS licenses are not listed as Category 1 (OS type licenses) or Category 3
> (SIP type licenses), thus are Category 2.

How do you reconcile that with this HP web page:

    http://h71000.www7.hp.com/swcat/us/clustersvms.html

   "HP OpenVMS Cluster Software is an OpenVMS System Integrated
   Product (SIP). It provides a highly integrated OpenVMS computing
   environment distributed over multiple Alpha and VAX systems.
     <snip>
     * HP OpenVMS Cluster Client Software for Alpha (part of NAS150)"

Note carefully "SIP".

SIPs (category 3) are, as you noted, transferrable. OpenVMS
Cluster Client Software for Alpha is a SIP. There is no
separate license for "OpenVMS Cluster Client Software for Alpha"
-- it is part of NAS150 and cannot be ordered separately. See
this web page for more details:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/products/clusters/clusters_new_features62.html

   "OpenVMS Cluster Client software is available for Alpha and VAX
   systems. The software uses an LMF license name of VMSCLUSTER-CLIENT.
   OpenVMS Cluster Client software is included in the Compaq NAS 150
   package and is not separately orderable."

How do you transfer this Cluster Client license (a SIP, but which
does not exist as a separate entity) without transferring NAS150?

Alan