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OSF Flash Bulletin - DME NMO Pricing Announced
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Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 15:23:12 -0400
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OSF ELECTRONIC FLASH
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An electronic mail news flash for OSF Members from
the Open Software Foundation
May 11, 1994
OSF Announces DME Network Management Option Pricing
options set to encourage widespread adoption
LAS VEGAS, NV May 4, 1994 - The Open Software Foundation
today announced the pricing for the OSF Distributed
Management Environment's (DME) Network Management Option
(NMO). The NMO is the second component of DME. DME Services
were shipped late last year.
DME NMO provides a common, vendor-neutral platform for
developing network management applications that can access
information using standard network management protocols. It
incorporates technology developed by Groupe Bull, Hewlett-
Packard and Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems.
X/Open's Management Protocol (XMP) is provided as a standard,
portable application programming interface (API) to access
industry protocols, such as the Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP), and the Common Management Information
Protocol (CMIP) for network management. The NMO technology
can be easily integrated into existing network management
frameworks to provide interoperable and consistent
implementations of XMP, SNMP, and CMIP. NMO is not a
replacement for existing frameworks, but a technology that
can be used to enhance these frameworks.
"Our pricing structure is created to encourage widespread
adoption of the technology by accommodating a variety of
vendors from the largest system suppliers to the small
software vendors," said Peter Shaw, Director of Business
Development at OSF. "The NMO is a key technology that meets a
very real user need for managing distributed environments."
The pricing and packaging for the NMO adheres to the existing
DME Services and Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
technology pricing models.
Options & Fees:
*Source code distribution is available in two forms:
Full distribution license allows use of DME NMO source code
for productization for commercial shipment of binary (object
code executable) copies.
Limited distribution license allows use of DME NMO for in-
house development.
Software Source Code Fees for DME NMO Commercial Licenses
Educational Licenses
Full Distribution Rights
* Initial CPU Source License (3 copies) $120,000 NA
* Addtl. CPU Source License (royalty copy) $2,000 NA
* Addtl. CPU Source License (royalty copy/OSF ships)$3,000 NA
Limited Distribution Rights
* Initial CPU Source License $12,000 NA
* Addtl. CPU Source License (royalty copy) $2,000 NA
* Addtl. CPU Source License (royalty copy/OSF ships)$3,000 NA
* Upgrade to Full Distribution Rights $120,000 NA
University Site License NA $2,500
Upgrade to Commercial Site License $40,000 NA
* Object code pricing and packaging offers the following
options: Manager and Agent Applications and an Annual Buyout
Fee per Operating System.
Object Code Fees Options:
OSF DME NMO Manager and Agent Applications
Price: Manager Application* $150.00
Agent Application $1.50
* Manager Applications are responsible for: (i) receiving and
displaying status information regarding hardware and
software; (ii) directing agent applications to perform a
particular task; and (iii) monitoring the status of the
software and hardware in the network. All others, including
proxy agents, are considered Agent Applications.
Annual Object Code Buyout Fee Per Operating System -- Full
Distribution Rights Licensees Only
Price: Unlimited Copies per year for DME NMO 1.0 on a Single
Operating System* $60,000.00
* This option applies to DME NMO 1.0, Option A, for the
Manager and Agent Applications, when shipped along with a
"Single Operating System" as defined in the attached price
list under Option C .
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research and development organization headquartered in
Cambridge, Massachusetts with more than 400 members
worldwide.
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