braunyakka
New Member
Hi,
I'm hoping someone here can help clarify some licensing questions. Specifically, if there is any information around indicative costs that would be amazing.
A bit of background. We're running a single Progress OpenEdge server with 3 databases and associated PASoEs running on it. Not ideal I know, but the reason will become apparent. Our users predominantly use the WebClient application to interact with the system; however we have a number of applications in Azure that interact with the system using API calls via the PASoEs as anonymous users. We also have functionality on our website that makes similar API calls. We've recently migrated the system to a VMware x86 architecture running version 12 on Linux and we are seeing significant performance issues.
The reason for the performance issues is that we currently have a 4 CPU license. Ideally we need at least 8 CPUs; however, we have been told that each CPU license costs 40k for the first year and 20k for a renewal (obviously plus maintenance), which is just too expensive for us right now. We've looked at named user licensing; however, when we sum up the cost for all our users it comes to more than the CPU licensing.
The other thing that we've been told is that every person that can potentially access our system would need a named user license. We have a guest user feature on our website, which theoretically means that every person on the planet could potentially be a user, so that suggests we would need 8 billion named user licenses. I can't believe that is correct; however, our account manager insists that the only options available to us are CPU and named user licensing.
Looking at the OpenEdge licensing guide it suggests that there are other license options, such as Server/Machine License, Site License, Application Specific License, Core License, Registered Device License, Server/Machine Unlimited User License, and Instance license.
So I guess my question is is there a way we can move away from a CPU license model to something that would not have a CPU restriction, and that is in the same ballpark cost wise? Also, does anyone have any indicative pricing around how much these alternate licenses cost, because our account manager just does not want to provide any alternate license options or any indicative costs. Seriously, it took a month of constant badgering just to get the CPU license cost out of him.
Thanks.
I'm hoping someone here can help clarify some licensing questions. Specifically, if there is any information around indicative costs that would be amazing.
A bit of background. We're running a single Progress OpenEdge server with 3 databases and associated PASoEs running on it. Not ideal I know, but the reason will become apparent. Our users predominantly use the WebClient application to interact with the system; however we have a number of applications in Azure that interact with the system using API calls via the PASoEs as anonymous users. We also have functionality on our website that makes similar API calls. We've recently migrated the system to a VMware x86 architecture running version 12 on Linux and we are seeing significant performance issues.
The reason for the performance issues is that we currently have a 4 CPU license. Ideally we need at least 8 CPUs; however, we have been told that each CPU license costs 40k for the first year and 20k for a renewal (obviously plus maintenance), which is just too expensive for us right now. We've looked at named user licensing; however, when we sum up the cost for all our users it comes to more than the CPU licensing.
The other thing that we've been told is that every person that can potentially access our system would need a named user license. We have a guest user feature on our website, which theoretically means that every person on the planet could potentially be a user, so that suggests we would need 8 billion named user licenses. I can't believe that is correct; however, our account manager insists that the only options available to us are CPU and named user licensing.
Looking at the OpenEdge licensing guide it suggests that there are other license options, such as Server/Machine License, Site License, Application Specific License, Core License, Registered Device License, Server/Machine Unlimited User License, and Instance license.
So I guess my question is is there a way we can move away from a CPU license model to something that would not have a CPU restriction, and that is in the same ballpark cost wise? Also, does anyone have any indicative pricing around how much these alternate licenses cost, because our account manager just does not want to provide any alternate license options or any indicative costs. Seriously, it took a month of constant badgering just to get the CPU license cost out of him.
Thanks.