Re: Change to 5.0 per website licensing
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 48220
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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 AventaggiatoCEOOn 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 businessContent Management & eBusiness SystemsComputerOil GmbH http://computeroil.com/Unionstrasse 4 info@computeroil.com8032 Zürich/SwitzerlandTel: +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/
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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 AventaggiatoCEOOn 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 businessContent Management & eBusiness SystemsComputerOil GmbH http://computeroil.com/Unionstrasse 4 info@computeroil.com8032 Zürich/SwitzerlandTel: +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/
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