Re: OSR507 Licensing Fee for multi CPU and Hyperthreading - Were they told right?
From: FyRE (FyRE_at_toktik.demon.ku.oc.x)
Date: 04/02/04
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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:48:43 +0100
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:52:01 EST, Brian Keener
<bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com> wrote:
[SCO's out of date licensing scheme]
>Can this be right - was there some misunderstanding somewhere or is this really
>the licensing. I'm sure I am out of the times but that seems a bit overdone.
Yes, you are correct, you'll need to pay SCO 4 times as much money for
2 hyperthreaded CPUs. Is it any wonder that SCO's a dead company when
you can pick up a modern operating system that can do everything OS or
UW can manage and much more, for free, to run on as many CPUs as you
like (the standard kernel allows for 32 CPUs I believe, and with NUMA,
it's several hundred per machine). As Brian has pointed out, SCO's
systems behave unpredictably with more than CPU in use. This is hardly
surprising since major parts of OS and UW have barely changed since
the days when an 80386 processor was the standard.
Unless you're in the sorry position of being chained to some ancient
legacy application (SCO's rapidly dwindling main market) then you
really should consider upgrading to Linux (or even *BSD); you know, an
operating system with a future in front of it, rather than behind it.
SCO as a company would actually have disappeared from the map over a
year ago, if it weren't for handouts (or "investments") from a few of
Microsoft's friends. They no longer make any profit from software,
their latest press releases about improvements to their software have
been filled with opensource projects they've bundled into their
distros (violating the GPL in the process), and a good proportion of
their company is owned by a lawfirm. Real "innovators" huh? ;-)
-- FyRE < "War: The way Americans learn geography" >
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