Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc!ccadfa!usage!basser!wolfen!steve 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 Lines: 27 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 Australia. | Arpa: steve@wolfen.cc.uow.oz.AU