Why we love licensing
Flashback a decade or two, to the days when one big database vendor is constantly changing its licensing -- and customers keep figuring out how to beat it, according to this IT pilot fish.
"Every time the vendor came up with some way to maximize profits, someone came up with a way to bypass it legally and minimize licensing costs," fish says.
"So the vendor introduced Named User Licensing, where a company pays for the specific people accessing a database system, regardless of how indirectly they might access the database.
"Our local sales team took us out to lunch at a local fancy hamburger joint to explain how the new licensing scheme would work.
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