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"Luchini, Kristi" <[email protected]> · Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:22:46 -0700

Hi,

WindRiver never seems to have any prices written down. The only way I have been able to get prices is over the phone through my account manager. Its like pulling teeth to get the quote in writting.

In SLAC's case we have at lease one new account manager each year (sometimes more)! It is not clear to me if each account mananger has their own take on how the WindRiver license/price scheme works or if its the license scheme that changes each year. In Jan 2002, Ron Chestnut was able to make a deal with WindRiver that would allow SLAC to purchase VxWorks OEM run-time licenses at $300/each.  The $300 prices tag was the WindRiver quote for purchaseing a bulk quantity of 51-99 run-time licenses. The price list you quoted below a bit different from what I was told last year. The odd thing is that the first time I purchased run-time licenses for $300 a pop, our account manager was changed and we received a letter from WindRiver of their intent to audit SLAC. 

  - Kristi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhijian Yin [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:56 PM
> To: EPICS Tech-Talk
> Subject: Vxworks target License at EPICS sites?
> 
> 
> 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).
> 
> ------------------
> 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
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> 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
> ....
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 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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