SUSE Enterprise Licensing Question - Suse

I have a couple of questions about licensing:

1.If I purchase a 1-year support license/agreement of SUSE Enterprise
after the year I have to purchase another support license/agreement in
order to remain using it legally right?
2. Do the software stop working (expire) if I don’t purchase a new
support agreement?
3.A support agreement should be bought for each server on my company
or 1 agreement apply to all my servers?

Thanks in advance!
SUSE ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Artificer wrote:
>
>
> I have a couple of questions about licensing:
>
> 1.If I purchase a 1-year support license/agreement of SUSE Enterprise
> after the year I have to purchase another support license/agreement in
> order to remain using it legally right?

No, You just won;t be able to run the updates, so your system becomes
insecure, unless you do it yourself.

> 2. Do the software stop working (expire) if I don?t purchase a new
> support agreement?

The updates won't work anymore.

> 3.A support agreement should be bought for each server on my company
> or 1 agreement apply to all my servers?

Yes, meaning both will be possible. If you have 10.000 servers, I am
sure that they will be willing to make a deal. If you have 5 servers,
they most likley won't/


houghi
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Artificer wrote:
> I have a couple of questions about licensing:
>
> 1.If I purchase a 1-year support license/agreement of SUSE Enterprise
> after the year I have to purchase another support license/agreement in
> order to remain using it legally right?

Yes... but you can purchase a 3 year support agreements instead.

> 2. Do the software stop working (expire) if I don’t purchase a new
> support agreement?

No. But support updates/patches won't be available through easy
online updates.

> 3.A support agreement should be bought for each server on my company
> or 1 agreement apply to all my servers?

In the past one license allowed updates to multiple servers. But I
don't think that works anymore (not sure). Novell (and Red Hat)
may want to investigate a better enterprise/volume plan.

The assumption right now implies that a company will NOT deploy
too many SLES servers. Which I don't think is something to encourage.
Just my opinion.


>
> Thanks in advance!
> SUSE ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it rocks too... but you have to FIGHT hard to keep
things the same or make them better. Now's not the time to
sit back and relax... and that time should NEVER
come.

houghi wrote:

> Artificer wrote:

>> 3.A support agreement should be bought for each server on my company
>> or 1 agreement apply to all my servers?
>
> Yes, meaning both will be possible. If you have 10.000 servers, I am
> sure that they will be willing to make a deal. If you have 5 servers,
> they most likley won't/

IIRC there is one license for each server machine. So virtual machines
are basically free of charge. But then it all depends on the individual
contracts, and volume licenses are not unheard of. The OP has probably
signed a license agreement. He should read it.

Günther