Thus it was written in the epistle of jamie.harwood,
> Hi - I currently have and HP3000 937LX. At this time we are planning on
> homesteading. I am considering trying to purchase another 937LX to serve
> strictly as a backup system - "just in case". What type of licensing issues
> am I facing here? I currently have a 64 user license, Image, Cobol, Cognos,
> Disc, DB General, VESoft and Formation (ROC Software). Is anyone doing this
> now?

The most trouble I would expect you to have is in dealing with HP and Cognos.
From my experience, you are best finding a box which already has the correct
number of user licenses and has the right kind of Image (probably Image/SQL),
and Cobol.  Failing that, at least get the right number of user licenses.  HP
doesn't want to deal with the 9x7s any more and they refused to sell user
licenses for them.  If Cognos continues to support MPE, you should be ok there.
I don't know what they plan to do, though, and getting Cognos on a second box
(to avoid that problem) may be prohibitively expensive.  Disc, DbGeneral,
VESoft and ROC I expect to all be happy to deal with license transfers quite a
while into the future.

HTH,
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), UGA Graduate Mathematics
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The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right.
In all the mathematics that I did, the essential point was to find the right
architecture. It's like building a bridge. Once the main lines of the
structure are right, then the details miraculously fit. The problem is the
overall design.
                                        -- Dyson, Freeman
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