Ideal Software Licensing Model – Requirements Collection

I’m looking for some feedback and thoughts from the community to help define a reasonable Licensing Model that takes Physical & Virtual into account.  From my view as a client I don’t think this is all that complicated at the end of the day.
More discussions with some vendors around licensing and I’m finding more and [...]

Posted on February 2, 2010 at 1:42 am by iguy · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Business Objects is Virtualization/MultiCore Stupid

Recently I have been involved in discussions internally on what it will take to get Business Objects onto a Virtual Machine.   The main talk has been around potentially removing another equivalent product and moving entirely over to Business Objects.   Then we got pricing for Business Objects.  
The standard piece of hardware today is pretty hefty even [...]

Posted on September 28, 2009 at 2:29 pm by iguy · Permalink · One Comment
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AppSpeed update

I’ve had the AppSpeed demo setup and running in one of my clusters.   When you get the demo temporary license, its for 16 cores worth.   My smallest environment to test in is 160 cores deep.
I figured no issue, I’ll just see what I get for a couple different apps to see how it works.   That [...]

Posted on August 28, 2009 at 2:50 am by iguy · Permalink · Leave a comment
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