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Re: IDL 4.0 Update Preview (forward for those w [message #3718 is a reply to message #3687]

Fri, 03 March 1995 04:46

zawodny
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In article <gurman-0203950142100001@barkochba.gsfc.nasa.gov> gurman@uvsp.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
>
> I also believe the new maintenance policy is keyed to the original
> license price, so it will become much more expensive to maintain
> node-locked licenses. That is a shame (IMHO), because the license manager
> is such a pain.
>
> Anyone have any opinions on the matter?
>

We jumped ship on the node locked licenses a few years back when they
first came out. It was pretty painless even on our systems (Alphas
running OSF/1) despite having to use the newly ported license manager
daemon. All in all, I'd have to say that it was much easier than
expected. We were also able to consolidate several of our node locked
licenses in to a single multi-license network version and thus able to
save a bit on annual maint. I am not sure whether this is still a
standard practice, as this was done before they hired a "business
manager". Since then a number of questionable business decisions have
been made.

IMHO, RSI is going the wrong way on this. They need to hold the line
on maint costs and drop the price of IDL to be more in line with the
competition (like PV-WAVE, Hi-Q, Matlab, ...). These are all running
at about half the cost of IDL. Market share and size of total market
are the key to stable profits. I have no doubt IDL would do well in
head to head competition against these other packages, but at twice
the cost they price themselves in to another league (and out of the
competition). The cost vs units-sold function is not a smooth curve
rather it has a number of discontinuities in it. Finding a local
maximum in cost*units-sold does not assure one of having found the
global max.

... but I ramble.

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Joseph M. Zawodny (KO4LW) NASA Langley Research Center
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