Multistore : pay extra? (TS 552 sp4)

hi all,

I have this question : is the use of more than one store, to be paid extra?

I'd like to use this feature, perhaps to create a separate "development and config branch" (as in a source code management system) on our dev server. I've seen some posts about using TS as SCM system, and it got me thinking. I experimented with CLT iwstoreadm and it makes new stores instantly.

I'd love to go ahead with that, but I'm not sure if I should be concerned about Licensing.

I'd hate to get into a lenghty experience with my hierarchy to find out what exactly our contract says (... lenghty in the sense that it would probably take days to find the person who remembers the person who may have seen that contract once upon a time, and then get a few minutes of this VIP's time).

We're on 552 sp 4 Solaris now, with what I understand to be a rather wide contract.

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Migrateduser

Regretfully, you will need to check with either you own people or with Interwoven Support. No one else will know the terms of your legal agreement.

Brinko Kobrin
Interwoven Staff Engineer

lhdavis

Probably depends what your contract says but I know one of my clients was told that after their base installation (which included one backing store) each additional backing store license was an additional cost. Might be worth the trouble of going back and looking at your original licensing agreement and seeing if you can at least try it out in a dev environment to see if you want to support it in production.

Luke Davis
Open Technology Group, Inc.
luke.davis@med.va.gov

Migrateduser

Not just a little additional cost either, but a significant additional cost. Be prepared for more and more componentized pieces of the product coming out in the near future as well that you will have to pay for to get - stuff that should be a part of the product but won't be. You have been warned...

Dave Smith
Sr. Software Engineer
Nike, Inc.
(503) 671-4238
DavidH.Smith@nike.com

Frederik

Thx for your comments.

Beyond all expectations, a copy of the contract was in the binders of my nearest manager. I was allowed a brief look. But the contract being drafted up 3 years ago (+-), there's no mention of multistore. We do have "unlimited servers". would that be enough?

I filed a case through support site, even though it says they answer "technical questions".

Adam Stoller

Actually - while Support *might* be able to answer your question - your Interwoven Sales Representative *should* be able to answer it. If you have unlimited servers in your agreement and that was pre-MultiStore, then I think you have a good case for the use of MultiStore without additional license fees.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

nipper

As a former member of the sales force, it is likely you will need to pay for additional stores. As SMitty
mentioned it is not cheap.

Now you really do not need different stores for the config branch or something like that. Really it comes down
to ease of administration. We had (until we seperated from the corp server) 1 store with 4 business units,
100 GB of data, a s***load of branches and ~ 300 users. Backups took a really long time, so different stores
would have helped.

Andy

Frederik

Thx everyone for suggestions.

Support case was responded to with positive reply saying Multistore is covered by our contract.

About the "need" to use it (cfr Nipper)... given the luxury of choice, we'll see what's most convenient to us.

We have a dev server that we use occasionally to experiment with, and it would feel safer to have the serious stuff (config files etc.) in a separate branch that is apart from these experiments >> backup etc.

EDIT : I meant to say "separate store" in that last sentence

Edited by Frederik on 06/21/04 05:10 AM (server time).