Allen S. Rout wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:41:17 -0500, Bob Booth <booth AT UIUC DOT EDU> said:
>
>> IBM.. please listen to your customers, we have been giving you plenty of
>> warning.  You can save yourself and us money and time, if you change your 
>> ways.
>
> ...
>
> Not to toot my own horn (but deliberately tooting Bob's), but when
> customers of such longstanding interaction with your product are
> frothing in this way, you're doing something Really Really Wrong.
>
> Anyone interested in time-on-target protests at Oxford?
>

It's at least a good opportunity to talk some of the IBM folks about a
lot of fun stuff, and voice our concerns. As for me, my major concern is
that it is completely impossible for me to know how many licenses we'll
need, even when asking all my customers to report that to me on a yearly
basis, leave alone when the day comes that IBM decides to audit the bunch.

We have developed a postgres database with a lot of tools to keep track
of licenses, and I'm 100% sure there are lots of errors in the database,
nnot because we don't want to keep decent accounting, but because it
really is impossible.

>
> - Allen S. (for "Steamed") Rout


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