Licensing - is Progress licence "Application specific"?

[mdemon]

Hi,

We have a manufacturing package which uses a Progress 9.1D backend. We are letting the Front-end license lapse in Spetember as we are moving to another solution.

We'd like to report on historic data using Report Builder but the Reseller (who sold us the front end) says we can't do this as our Progress licence is "application specific".

Is he talking rubbish? And if he isn't, can we buy a single user non-app specific licence and use that?

Or would we have to move the data from its current location to a new Db under that licence?

Cheers,

John

 

[govindankvs]

Hi,

One Q first. Did ur progress backend come as a package with the front end OR did you buy progress 9.x seperately ?

I have not seen any app specific progress DB license

Anyways you can find the progress expiry using this command

Type : (map ur DLC to ur progress installation DIR)
$DLC/bin/showcfg $DLC/progress.cfg

This will show the expiry of ur progress product.

Regards
Govindan

 

[Derik]

He's talking rubbish!

If you have progress, you have progress.

Derik

 

[TomBascom]

Actually, no, it isn't (entirely) rubbish. If you buy an application from an Application Partner the Progress licenses are specific to that partner's application. If you then buy a second, distinct, application from another partner you get to buy a second set of Progress licenses.

It gets a bit fuzzy when applications are related and there is a concept called a "bolt-on" which applies, more or less, when the second application depnds on the first in order to function.

Having said that I wouldn't think, unless you're renting the application, that simply dropping maintenance on a part of an application would generally invalidate your right to continue to use it without support. It's possible that your license says differently, lawyers come up with the darndest ideas, but it would be unusual.

This mostly smells like a sales weasel trying to extract an unearned commission. But it can all get quite complicated and you should probably carefully read the terms of whatever licenses you may have agreed to.

 

[it@flude.co.uk]

We had a similar problem when upgrading from V8 to V9 for our Payroll package.

In the end, we upgraded our V8 licences for our in-house application directly from Progress and then used those licences for the Payroll application as well. As far as Progress were concerned, as long as we had enough licences to cover all our applications, they didn't much care where we bought them.

The Payroll company didn't like it, though.

If all your licences were bundled with applications, then things might be different.