| > a customer bought 100 CCS license 2 years ago. Now he wants to use 100
> concurrent licence on his VMS server, and he don�t need PW client software
> anymore.
> Is it correct to give him a 100 user CU licence paper with no price and
> receive the old CCS licences back?
There is no standard mechanism for trading between types
of licenses. I think such trades are handled on an
individual basis on by a country-specific organization.
> It seems to be correct, because they already bougth the rights to use
> their PW server.
They bought the rights to have 100 machines run a certain
version of PATHWORKS client software and connect to any
number of PATHWORKS V5 (probably LAN Manager) servers.
This is like buying 100 CNS licenses and 100 FPA licenses
but is different from buying a 100-user FPS license.
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| re: .0
Endre,
The official PATHWORKS trade-in policy is that you can *not* trade-in PATHWORKS
licenses for another DIGITAL software product...whether or not its just another
PATHWORKS product.
However, under some circumstances we do entertain trade requests. The policies
that govern how these trades are handled vary from area to area, so, without
knowing where your customer is and exactly what licenses they want to trade,
I could not help you. Please send me mail off-line and I'll advise.
Note that the PATHWORKS Business Practices Field Advisory (VTX IR ID:LI01PY)
describes the future of PATHWORKS licensing and might help to address this
(and other) customers issues.
Finally, I do hope that the customer understands the restrictions related to
the PC Concurrent (new name for FPS) licenses. In particular, if the customer
intends to access more than one PATHWORKS server, this may not be an appropriate
license choice.
John
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