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Wow, licensing experts! Can't pass up on this.... When negotiating licensing, the Progress sales reps sometimes refer to "list price" and then they may give you an arbitrary discount base on that. Shouldn't this imply that we can see a public list of prices somewhere? Or is neither price public (either the "list price" or their discounts). This seems to contradict the meaning of "list price"; I think it would be helpful to be able to see the "price list" if such a thing exists. Insofar as PASOE goes, my understanding is that they were selling that with "named user licenses". Do you know of customers that have started purchasing it by core instead? Finally, I am wondering about "Data Server for SQL"? Have you ever seen that licensed by core, or is it a different licensing model? It seems overly complex to have some products using one licensing model, and others using another model.
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