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NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS
on NOVELL NETWARE 10/25/01 - Today's focus: Calculating NetWare 6 licenses Dear Wincenty Kaminski, In this issue: * Resources to help you calculate NetWare 6 licensing costs * Links related to Novell NetWare * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter sponsored by Novell With NetWare 6, your network is just a browser away. You've read all the great reviews about how you can access your file, print and other storage resources from any browser anywhere with NetWare6. To get updated product information and downloads, visit http://nww1.com/go/3421902a.html _______________________________________________________________ More with Less Budgets are either stagnant or shrinking this year, and net executives are being forced to do more with less money - and often fewer people. We've compiled a series of Network World articles, newsletters and columns you can use to make the most of your budget and resources. http://nww1.com/go/ad169.html _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Calculating NetWare 6 licenses By Dave Kearns Last month we talked about the new user-based licensing model for NetWare 6. No longer will you need to have a license installed on each server for every user accessing that server. In fact, you can have as many servers as you want - it's only users that are licensed. While this is good news to many NetWare sites, it could cost some a bundle. For example, if your network is for a business that uses four servers, each supporting 100 users from 9 to 5 Mondays through Fridays, you would have needed 100 licenses for each of the four servers - a total of 400 licenses. With NetWare 6, you only need 100 licenses. On the other hand, let's say your network is for a university with 30 servers and 5,000 users (students, professors, coaches, business people, etc.), but no more than 20 or so users (on average) are attached to any one server. Under the NetWare 5 license, you'd need 20 licenses per server, for a total of 600 licenses. With NetWare 6, you'd need 5,000 licenses. OK, I exaggerated the usage - but only to make a point. Not everyone will benefit from the new named-user licensing scheme. Fortunately, Novell already thought of this. It's intended that no one should have to pay more for NetWare 6 than they would for NetWare 5. There are many, many licensing arrangements possible for educational institutions as well as commercial (and non-commercial) enterprises. Visit http://www.novell.com/licensing/price.html for an overview of the various licensing schemes and download the available spreadsheets to see what your costs will be. One last tip: to see how many user licenses you'll need to buy for the named-user licensing scheme, visit NetPro's Web site (http://www.netpro.com/products/dscount/dscount_c.cfm) and download the free DS Count utility that counts users, objects, groups, servers, and partitions in the entire NDS/eDirectory tree. It also displays the subtotals and totals by either partition or container and creates a report that can be saved or printed. It's a neat tool. _______________________________________________________________ To contact Dave Kearns: Dave Kearns is the Word Wrangler for Virtual Quill, a writing agency serving the computer and networking industries. If your target customer doesn't know your product, doesn't know its uses and doesn't know he needs it, he's not going to buy it. From books to reviews, marketing to manuals, VQ can help you and your business. Virtual Quill - "words to sell by..." Find out more at: http://www.vquill.com/, or by e-mail at mailto:info@vquill.com. _______________________________________________________________ RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS All you can eat Netware 6 Network World NetWare Newsletter, 09/17/01 http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/netware/2001/01005807.html Breaking Novell and NetWare news, updated daily: http://www.nwfusion.com/news/financial/novell.html Archive of the Novell NetWare newsletter: http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/netware/index.html ______________________________________________________________ FEATURED READER RESOURCE Network World Fusion's Net.Worker site Whether your company is growing larger or scaling back, corporate managers are looking for ways to cut costs while retaining and recruiting star employees. One smart solution - at least on paper - is to let some employees work from home. Network World's Net.Worker Web site bridges the gap between the telework concept and the hardware, software and services needed to make it happen. We bring you news and reviews, sound advice and keen insight into the technologies and solutions you need to manage a remote and mobile workforce. Visit http://www.nwfusion.com/net.worker/index.html _______________________________________________________________ May We Send You a Free Print Subscription? You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered at your fingertips each day. Now, extend your knowledge by receiving 51 FREE issues to our print publication. 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