> Ah! Another trap buried inside a software license.  I'm
> predicting that this
> stuff will get far worse if and when we can get MPE/iX to run
> on some other
> hardware somehow in the future.  DOWN-sizing your CPU should
> not conflict
> with your license in a logical world but lawyers write
> license agreements not
> me.

This is another concern I have about OpenMPE.

Companies like Cognos have squeezed their customers at every opportunity. I
doubt we could count the number of 3000 upgrades killed by the rediculous
software upgrade fees they, and companies like them, have tried to charge.

I expect that if OpenMPE somehow succeeds and MPE is ported to a new
platform, a new wave of migrations off of MPE will occur when the vendor
licensing fees are announced.

Comments are my own... not my employer's... etc.

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