kkw@ucsd.edu (02/14/91)
I am looking at purchasing Word Perfect 5.0 for the Sun and am extremely confused with their licensing scheme. Does anyone out there have WP that could explain to me what I really need to buy to accomplish the following: Configuration: Sun4/470 server 5 Sparcstations 8-10 terminals or PC's using PC-NFS The actual software will be installed on the server since all filesystems are NFS mounted on the clients. I want any user at any terminal or workstation to be able to utilize WP. However, as we all know not all the devices will really be utilizing WP at all times. Probably only about 3 users will be using WP at any one time. What I really want is a concurrent use license or a site license but that does not appear to be available. Instead I am being told that I would have to purchase both the multi-user license and the network versions to handle all the cases. But I don't understand why I would need both since I won't actually be installing the software on the workstations. Anyway, my question is: Does WP do some kind of detection for what type of processor or device you are running on to determine if you are licensed? Or if I just bought the multi-user license would I be able to do what I want since I will not actually be installing the software on the workstations themselves but do expect to utilize it on the workstations. Of course what I really want is a licensing scheme such as Framemaker utilizes.