Jon writes:

>  If I'm not mistaken Wirt is the only software vendor (utility or
>  application) that has responded to the issue of HPCPUNAME and HPSUSAN and
>  he's making moves that eliminate his concerns.  Does this mean that none of
>  the other vendors care about the presence of these variables or not?
>  Perhaps the emulator vendor(s) don't even need to care about this aspect
>  then.

I may not have been as clear as I should have been. While the HPCPUNAME
facility will no longer be important to us simply because we will no longer
base our tiers on CPU "power" but rather on simultaneous users, some form of
processor unique identification is still very important to us as an
antipiracy mechanism.

On HP-UX and IBM AIX boxes, these unique serial numbers (HPSUSANs) are
provided in the "uname -a" response, but they unfortunately don't exist on
most other boxes, thus we have to tie our license mechanism to some hardware
attribute. The feature most likely to satisfy that requirement is the MAC
address of the NIC card in the server -- and that's what at least one other
company is using for their licensing. See:

     http://www.tryappx.com/assets/asp/dynamic_generator.asp?pageid=759

Wirt Atmar