Change to 5.0 per website licensing
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = 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.comThe 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
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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.comThe 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/
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