Would a Session on Licensing Requirements/Options be Useful?
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:-).