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From: steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Steve Cliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Dynix licensing
Keywords: license, user-limits
Message-ID: <6006@wolfen.cc.uow.oz>
Date: 18 Sep 89 02:18:42 GMT
Organization: Uni of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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Can someone please tell me why Sequent persists with the user-limit 
concept. We currently have a 2 processor symmetry with a 32 user limit.

Pyramid dropped this quite a while ago and our Sun's have no such 
limit, so it is very hard for us to justify paying quite a lot of money
for no physical gain. 

When we reach our user-limit response time is still quite good, so when
our local sales rep asks us when we are going to upgrade our machine
we have to say that we can't because our user limit won't let us get 
the most out of our current configuration so putting more hardware in
is pointless.

So, in the future we it comes to allocating courses to machines we will
be forced to run more and more on our Sun's untill eventually, the Sequent
becomes forgotten.


Unhappy,

Steve.

Stephen Cliffe,				| Phone:   +61 42 270937
Dept. of Computing Science,		| Fax:     +61 42 297768
University of Wollongong,		| ACSnet:  steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz
Wollongong NSW 2500,			| UUCP:    ..!munnari!wolfen.oz!steve
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