"Brian Keener" <bkeener@thesoftwaresource.com> wrote in message
news:VA.00000f30.00663597@thesoftwaresource.com...
> 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.

Just to reiterate, you need to buy *one* additional SMP license for the 2nd
CPU,
and you must also buy one SCO Update license, which allows you to install
SCO Update Packs, which adds new features to the OS. One of these new
features is support of HT on newer P4 and Xeon processors.

When all is said and done, your single machine will appear to have 4
processors
enabled, 2 real (from SMP) and 2 virtual (from HT).

Bob