Re: Licensing for test and development servers?

We have production licenses. My question is around licenses for the servers which are only used for development, test, QA, etc... Do you have separate licenses for these servers?

-Jamie

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:04:40 -0400, Powell, Mark D <mark.powell_at_eds.com> wrote:
> This is not legal advice (see someone with a valid law practice for that)
> but it would appear that as long as you are working on a single copy of a
> program that you are not using for either your own internal use and that is
> not running at any other sites then you are developing and do not need to
> purchase a license. I would think program here could be plural as in you
> are developing an application that might consist of a dozen programs.
>
> But as soon as you use the programs to conduct training you must buy a
> license or if you start using the application either in-house or somewhere
> else you must buy licenses. Conducting training in advance of implementing
> the application either internally or externally would probably be a trigger
> point for requiring a license.
>
> This is the best I can figure it. We run production so we have licenses
> that I believe cover us, but it never hurts to try to keep up with this
> stuff. When in doubt dump the problem on management. If you are management
> then pass it by legal. Better safe than sorry.
>
> IMHO -- Mark D Powell --

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