A Customer of mine upgraded from a single processor machine on SCO OSR 5.0.5 to
a new Multiprocessor machine on SCO OSR 5.0.7. Of course they upgraded their
license from one machine on 5.0.5 to the new machine on 5.0.7. Exploring some
of the bios settings yesterday (the machine is not in production mode yet) they
discovered the hyperthreading option and when they turned it on - it did
nothing (their quote). At any rate further investigation revealed they were
also utilizing only one of the processors.

While checking into all of this they found out that in order to get the second
cpu (in the same machine) to function they would have to buy a second SCO OSR
5.0.7 license and if they wanted to get Hyperthreading to work then they would
have to buy and additional 2 more above that. So they would need 4 OSR 5.0.7
licenses for a single machine with 2 processors and hyperthreading.....

Can this be right - was there some misunderstanding somewhere or is this really
the licensing. I'm sure I am out of the times but that seems a bit overdone.

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Brian Keener
bkeenerReMoVeAnTiSpAm@thesoftwaresource.com