Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = I just have to say, thank you Phil:-)Now, we can get all back to work and look forward to version 5.x,Sincerely, Nitai Aventaggiato CEOOn 1.3.2003 12:14 AM, Phillip Bonesteele wrote:> > As I've stated in prior postings to the talk list, the sole purpose of > providing a new per 'website' licensing scheme is to offer an additional, > alternative model at a lower price point for people that don't require an > 'unlimited' capability. It is not intended to introduce additional costs > per website since we could have simply stayed with the old model of one > price for 'unlimited' for everyone. This additional model allows a lower > entry point for people that want a pay as you grow model, yet maintains > the ability for a business with a large installed base of customers to stay > with the 'unlimited' license model. > > In creating a website/hostname licensing model, we had to examine how to > implement a mechanism that provides a well defined structure for identifying > a 'unique' website/hostname that would count as one licensed 'instance'. At > the same time, this implementation could not impose an undue performance > penalty simply to resolve the unique website/hostname for licensing purposes > on each page request. Such a potential performance impact would clearly > defeat the overall purpose of WebDNA as a high performance product. > > We have looked at this code in the engine again, also with the understanding > that to be truly useful to the broadest set of our customer community, a > website most often has at least a few sub-domains for beta versions, secure > access, etc. What we have determined is that this licensing model can be > modified to successfully resolve a unique domain name after the first '.' in > the complete website/hostname string WITHOUT imposing a general performance > penalty within the WebDNA engine for each page request. This adjustment to > the licensing mechanism will mean that the 'unique' website/hostname would > be the entire domain name that succeeds the first '.' in the complete > hostname string, which would be counted as a single 'instance' for licensing > purposes. This would then permit an arbitrary number of 'prefixes' that > appear prior to the first '.'. In this scenario the following would be > counted as a single 'website' instance: > > www.mystore.us.com > beta.mystore.us.com > secure.mystore.us.com > monitor.mystore.us.com > > The key value that is identified as unique is 'mystore.us.com', which would > count as a single 'website' instance for licensing purposes. This > adjustment to the licensing model will allow the flexibility to create > sub-domains that are common with the deployment of a single website through > the use of prefixes, provide a secure licensing model necessary to permit us > to enable a lower price point, and can be implemented without imposing a > general performance penalty upon the WebDNA engine. > > > Phil Bonesteele > Director e-business Products & Services > Smith Micro Software > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/-- Tools to energize your business Content Management & eBusiness SystemsComputerOil GmbH http://computeroil.com/ Unionstrasse 4 info@computeroil.com 8032 Zürich/Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)43 333 1 555 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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  3. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Brian B. Burton 2003)
  4. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Scott Anderson 2003)
  5. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Donovan 2003)
  6. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Brian B. Burton 2003)
  7. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Scott Anderson 2003)
  8. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Jay Van Vark 2003)
  9. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Phillip Bonesteele 2003)
  10. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Alex McCombie 2003)
  11. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Donovan 2003)
  12. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Joe D'Andrea 2003)
  13. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Nitai @ ComputerOil 2003)
  14. Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Alex McCombie 2003)
  15. Change to 5.0 per website licensing (Phillip Bonesteele 2003)
I just have to say, thank you Phil:-)Now, we can get all back to work and look forward to version 5.x,Sincerely, Nitai Aventaggiato CEOOn 1.3.2003 12:14 AM, Phillip Bonesteele wrote:> > As I've stated in prior postings to the Talk List, the sole purpose of > providing a new per 'website' licensing scheme is to offer an additional, > alternative model at a lower price point for people that don't require an > 'unlimited' capability. It is not intended to introduce additional costs > per website since we could have simply stayed with the old model of one > price for 'unlimited' for everyone. This additional model allows a lower > entry point for people that want a pay as you grow model, yet maintains > the ability for a business with a large installed base of customers to stay > with the 'unlimited' license model. > > In creating a website/hostname licensing model, we had to examine how to > implement a mechanism that provides a well defined structure for identifying > a 'unique' website/hostname that would count as one licensed 'instance'. At > the same time, this implementation could not impose an undue performance > penalty simply to resolve the unique website/hostname for licensing purposes > on each page request. Such a potential performance impact would clearly > defeat the overall purpose of WebDNA as a high performance product. > > We have looked at this code in the engine again, also with the understanding > that to be truly useful to the broadest set of our customer community, a > website most often has at least a few sub-domains for beta versions, secure > access, etc. What we have determined is that this licensing model can be > modified to successfully resolve a unique domain name after the first '.' in > the complete website/hostname string WITHOUT imposing a general performance > penalty within the WebDNA engine for each page request. This adjustment to > the licensing mechanism will mean that the 'unique' website/hostname would > be the entire domain name that succeeds the first '.' in the complete > hostname string, which would be counted as a single 'instance' for licensing > purposes. This would then permit an arbitrary number of 'prefixes' that > appear prior to the first '.'. In this scenario the following would be > counted as a single 'website' instance: > > www.mystore.us.com > beta.mystore.us.com > secure.mystore.us.com > monitor.mystore.us.com > > The key value that is identified as unique is 'mystore.us.com', which would > count as a single 'website' instance for licensing purposes. This > adjustment to the licensing model will allow the flexibility to create > sub-domains that are common with the deployment of a single website through > the use of prefixes, provide a secure licensing model necessary to permit us > to enable a lower price point, and can be implemented without imposing a > general performance penalty upon the WebDNA engine. > > > Phil Bonesteele > Director e-business Products & Services > Smith Micro Software > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/-- Tools to energize your business Content Management & eBusiness SystemsComputerOil GmbH http://computeroil.com/ Unionstrasse 4 info@computeroil.com 8032 Zürich/Switzerland Tel: +41 (0)43 333 1 555 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Nitai @ ComputerOil

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