Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System
First of all - there is no pricing agreement for anyone outside of the
EPICS single seat licenses that was reached. The remainder of this letter
only refers to those single seat licenses that were issued.
LANL will be upgrading to Tornado.
Only read on if you have a single seat license purchased through KSC-------
For those of you unfamilliar with the EPIC License Model, here is an outline:
1. EPICS Licenses are sold to EPICS Approved Canidates on
a single seat basis for $5,000. This includes one target
license as well as the BSP of choice.
2. Customers are eligible to license VxWorks under the EPICS pricelist
if and only if:
A. They are using VxWorks soley for work done on the EPICS
project.
B. They are part of a Not For Profit organization and have
limited funding with which to purchase EPICS Seats.
3. EPICS Licensees shall be submited in advance through Bob
Dalesio.
* These requests will now be sumitted to the
regional mgr. in the shipping territory for approval.
4. Distribution is done by Bob Dalesio of Los Alamos National
Labs.
5. Maintenance is done by Bob Dalesio of Los Alamos National
Labs.
The following are the proposed resolutions to your current problems.
1. Tornado upgrades to current EPICS users.
We have decided that we will upgrade current EPICS users
to Tornado for 1K per seat. As stated above, all transactions
will need aproval from regional mgmt. before considered under the
EPICS License Agreement.
2. New architectures for EPICS.
All WRS Supported Architectures will be offered to EPICS users under
the provisions of the EPICS License Agreement. This means that
EPICS can license PowerPC, Pentium, or any other supported arch.
under the terms and conditions of the EPICS License Agreement.
There will be a charge of $1500 for subsequent BSPs.
As stated above, all transactions will need aproval from regional
mgmt. before considered under the EPICS License Agreement.
3. New EPICS Seats.
All new EPICS Seats shall be licensed under the provisions
of the EPICS License Agreement (See Above). As stated above,
all transactions will need aproval from regional mgmt. before
considered under the EPICS License Agreement.
As stated above, all transactions will need aproval from regional
mgmt. before considered under the EPICS License Agreement.
4. Maintenance
Direct Maintenance agreements are available for these single seat
licenses for a cost of $2800/year per developer's seat.
As stated above, all transactions will need aproval from regional
mgmt. before considered under the EPICS License Agreement.
Otherwise - maintenance is provided from collaboration members
through this mail exploder.
5. Distribution
Direct distribution will be made to those single seat licensees
that register with WRS through the form that was previously sent.
If there is no CD capability - the distribution will be done through
Dalesio.
6. Documentation
This price does not include documentation - this is available from
your WRS distributor.
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