SunMathematica: the CPU is the computer

[Dave Kemp]

We just received SunMathematica, and discovered that it is licensed for a
*single* CPU; you call Sun with the hostid of a machine, they generate a
password, and the software runs only on that host.

Now I have the problem of deciding which machine to license it on.  I
don't want to walk to someone else's office to use it, and I don't want
people coming in to sit at my desk to use it either.

For a company that advertises the advantages of networking, licensing
software on other than a network basis (a la FrameMaker, Publisher, etc)
strikes me as disengenuous.  I'm considering returning the software sight
unseen and just using it on one of the Macs, which at our site do not sit
on people's desks.

What a crock.

    Dave Kemp <Kemp at dockmaster.ncsc.mil>