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Zhijian Yin <[email protected]> · Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:56:00 -0400

I'd like to know how different sites handle the Vxworks target license
issue.

I recently got a quote from WindRiver  It shows two price structures.  

Plan A is to buy target license one by one (or mutiple at a time), and
later orders are independent of your previous orders.  There is no need
to sign anything.

Plan B is cheaper, and we could lock the price for the later purcases
for the life of our project. (for example, I pay 10 license now for
4875, and all later license purchases will be $487.5/ea).  But the catch
is that you'll need to sign a license agreement.  At BNL, it's the legal
department's job (which means lots of paper work, and they'll have to
approve the agreement).

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Plan A:

Quantity     Base_price     Incremental Price/unit

 1-4          1200          1170
 5-9          5880          1008
10-24        10920           792
25-49        22800           480
50-99        34800           312
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Plan B: (requiring to sign a target license agreement)

Volume_band   Quantity      per_unit_price     PO_minimum

   1           1            975                 975
   2           10           487                4875
   3           100          225               22500
....

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Obviously, if we could adopt Plan B it will be much cheaper (and easier)
for other beamlines to follow us to move to EPICS (at $487/ea compared
to
1200/ea, for example). 

I am just wondering how the target license issue is handled in various
EPICS sites.  Particularly in sites where large number of target
licenses is required (e.g.,  APS)

Zhijian Yin

[email protected]
(631)344-5525

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