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Suppose, hypothetically, you were attending a major vendor conference (does not matter what vendor, but maybe it could be one that meets every year in Orlando). Would you find, or do you think other attendees would find, a session on that vendor's software licensing options and requirements would be a well atennded and/or useful session?

The session would

1. Give an overview of the business control and corporate governance issues that directly and indirectly impact an organizations management of licenses.
2. Provide a structured walkthrough of a license agreement section by section, line by line to help attendees understand what is included in a software licesne and what it means (perhaps using one of that vendor's licenses as the example).
3. Walk through the many and varied licensing options that vendor has to offer and offer a roadmap on how to make the right decision which licensing path to take.
4. Have a vendor representative that is expert and knowledgable on the licensing as part of the presentation to answer specific questions and/or address specific issues.

or would this be better as a birds-of-a-feather type gathering? Do you think it would also make a good article for a technical publication.

Also, Rocky Oliver is fielding suggestions for the "Best Practices Track" for Lotusphere 2005 on his blog and Ed Brill is talking suggestions for Infrastructure sessions and other content on his blog (or is that LotusSphere 2005???).

For Libby, who is also taking a survey on the Lotus Informer:

Licensing is hard
We scratch our heads and say "huh"?
Why is it so hard?

Who is my sales rep?
Why do the licenses change?
Why is it so hard?

Maybe there can be
A session for peops like me
Making life simpler

Oh 'Sphere gods that be
Make life simpler for me now
Let 'Sphere set me free

Hey Haiku is fun:-).



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