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In article <1b25o9INNam4@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
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|> In article <BvtH51.CH2@apollo.hp.com> mob@apollo.HP.COM (Mary Bennett) writes:
|> >Well, if you believe that OSF is a standards company, then through the
|> >Distributed Management Environment (DME), a standard license management
|> >system will soon be available.  This is the same license management
|> >system that has been selected by Unix International (UI) and an ever
|> >growing number of large OEM's like: IBM, Silicon Graphics, Intergraph, 
|> >and Hewlett-Packard.  Other large companies will soon be announcing plans 
|> >to use this same license management system.  This technology is available
|> >now.
|> 
|> This is swell; but the PC and Mac business is a whole different jungle
|> of vendors selling fiercely proprietary shrink-wrapped $39.95 a copy
|> software packages with funny names.  Have any of them adopted this technology?

	The unnamed companies do indeed address the PC space.  As soon as this 
	becomes public information, I'll post it.

	Also, the technology that is provided by OSF does include a PC solution.
	This solution was developed by Gradient Technologies in Hudson, Mass. 

|> 
|> Even in the Unix world, does the OSF product address the original
|> question, which was a small developer who can't afford to pay big bucks
|> up front for code and a license to use it and distribute products using
|> it?

	A phone call to the OSF should tell you whether or not they have set 
	pricing for DME technology yet.	 I believe that OSF pricing is meant
	to be reasonable so that everyone can use it. 

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