At 11:11 8/22/99 -0400, Joe Geiser wrote:
>Tom after Richard...
>
>> For e-services users, the hardware on which the services run are unknown
>> and don't matter.  I think hardware-centric shows will target e-services
>> developers and providers, not e-services users.
>
>Actually it is - the vendor (and customer) will know that it's an HP3000, or
>Netserver, or UX box.  For our software (the customer we're dealing with
now),
>the HP3000 that HP utilizes will need to be known by HPSUSAN, HPCPUNAME and
>HPUSERLIMIT as to accomodate our licensing mechanisms.
>
>In addition, vendors will need some level of access to their software on
the HP
>systems used should HP host, so as to control their software should it need
>support.
>

For your product, that is true, because the customer is hosting the
database on his own server. For the case where the e-service provider is
hosting the everything (software and database) on his server or server
farm, the customer neither knows or cares what the host is.

>Cheers,
>Joe (break over - back to shampooing the carpet :)

When you are done, can you come over and do mine? :)



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