Re: is edi translator software difficult to write? was: edi vendor complaining

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

From: Keith Carpenter <snip>
Would have made more sense to license (and limit) by transaction volume. </snip>
There you go! That's something that the vendors could probably easily measure and sink their teeth into. Platform independent also.
Well, now how would they make sure that you didn't just run multiple copies to keep your transaction volume low? Fall back to serial number also?

Transactional limits would be straight forward for some applications like EDI, but more complicated for ERP (limits on orders, order lines, invoices, etc.)

Making a secure licensing mechanism has traditionally been a challenge. For the "i", serial# is easiest given it can be retrieved reliably and is hard to compromise. Huge advantage over PCs. I've not kept up with IBM's licensing APIs, but seems they could offer something to store and manage transactions per period of time. They can track concurrent users. This central licensing registry or DB would defeat the multiple copies issue. You'd probably have to license to the LPAR unless IBM has a machine wide solution.


Keith