[steering] license issues

[Dean Mah]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:20:14AM +0100, martin wrote:

> On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 11:28  pm, Dean Mah wrote:
>
> >>Dean, can you confirm when/whether we started using them on an *eo
> >>box?  Was it when we moved weo to Stark? Or were we running on them
> >>@ Oracular?
> >
> >From what I know *eo was at Oracular until around Jun 2001 and running
> >CF4.5.  Is that what you're looking for?
>
> Partially, yes. If thesite archives were searchable it'd be easier, but
> I'm looking to find out:
> 1) When did we start using Linux evals?
> 2) When did we stop using evals?
> 3) When did the box become *ours* where we needed our own license?
>
> rn, my understanding is:
> 1) When we moved from Vince hosting on NT/Access
> 2) Latest: October 18th 2001 when we moved to CF5.
> 3) When it became an *eo (ie same answer as (1)

We moved to Linux/Oracle/CF4.5 on Feb 28, 2000, see:

   http://evolt.org/article/Our_New_Home/1/1223/index.html

running at Oracular.

Going through some of my old admin mail, on May 30, 2000, Jeff sent an
e-mail saying that all of the pages on the evolt.org sites as well as
the Oracular sites were returning a 'CF4.5 Evaluation Expired'
message.  On the same day, Dan replied that all of the CF servers were
accessed from one box with NFS and that his intent was to install the
'real' version of CF and remove the release candidate.  By mistake, he
removed the wrong one.  So, technically we switched from the eval on
May 30, 2000.

I would suspect that we moved to eo specific boxes around Jun 2001.

October 18, 2001 we moved to CF5.

I didn't find anything to suggest that we continually ran into the CF
license expiring which required Dan to do 'something' on the server.
It sounds like we had 'real' licenses, when available, throughout the
time we were running on CF.

Dean