License Model

[victorduncker]

If I have a transaction processing system written in Cobol but with 20 Fortran modules, used for some complicated calculations, what is the licensing model?

The system could be made available to the WEB so potentially millions of users.
The system has 2 CPU's and 8 Cores
The system runs 20 concurrent transactions of wchich 1 may be using the Fortran routines.

It is tempting to convert these to C and avoid having the extra language but they work and it seems a pity to redevlop the wheel.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Intel Fortran does not use run-time licensing. We license for compiles only. An exception is if you use the optional (and extra-cost) IMSL library, for which there will soon be run-time licenses involved.

[onkelhotte]

Youll need a run time license for IMSL in the future?

Does this involve already sold / developed products or does this new licensing model affects only coming versions of IVF?

Markus

[Steven_L_Intel1]

As I understand it, this change takes effect on license renewal. It does not affect previously developed applications nor if you continue to use your existing copy of IMSL. You will find that all vendors offering IMSL are moving to this model, as it is what is required by Visual Numerics. Clearly we'll need an article explaining this in more detail.

Developers will not need a separate run-time license to do their development - only when the application is "deployed". One run-time license will be included with the product. Additional licenses can be purchased, and there will also be a "server" license that allows any number of users on an individual system.

I'll note that VNI itself has sold IMSL this way for many years, but the bundles with compilers had different terms. VNI has decided that everyone will play the same.

[onkelhotte]

Thanks for the answer.

Can you link this article here when it is available? Or better start a new thread, because this may concern more developers, who do not follow this one.

Markus

[victorduncker]

Thanks for the help, this answers my question perfectly.

I am not sure if we will need IMSL yet.

Victor

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Markus,

I will start a new Sticky when that article is available. I suppose I should also give yiou a heads-up that the package containing the November release with IMSL will be delayed as it is still being tested. I do not know when it will become available.