I've repeatedly told my sales rep and anyone at Tivoli who would listen
that this licensing scheme really poses a hardship. We support a
semi-open registration process, not only for on campus machines, but for
 those that work at home, are on sabbatical, etc. There is no way that
I can keep track of what type of machine it is, let alone the number of
processors or whether it is a client or server.

I also haven't seen addressed the licensing for 'virtual machines.'
These are the machines that run Virtual PC or VM Ware and now, thanks to
the unicode filespaces imposed by Win2K/XP, need to have separate client
nodes. The number of these machines, as well as other dual boot systems,
is growing. It used to be that I could set up an account for a student
and they could back up their Mac, Windows and Linux computers (whether
separate or all on one physical machine) on one account. Granted, they
couldn't cross restore, but at least they had the backup 'stuff' all in
one place and only one password to remember. Also, less admin for me at
graduation for account cleanup.

What about virtual nodes? We run several Oracle instances on one
physical box. Does each virtual node pay the price of its host? We also
have backups of larger UNIX boxes, but allow individual users to run
their own TSM client on it for special cases. Aren't I going to be
paying for the same physical machine twice?

Gretchen Thiele
Princeton University