Do you struggle to keep up with the zeitgeist? Has the word 'zeitgeist' even been overtaken by a new word de jour? It will happen to us all, if only by sheer dint of not being arsed about it any longer.
And that last might be one reason might well be why gargantuan vendors of software get into a tangle of lunacy over licensing. Ask almost anyone that works in IT and licensing will produce a lot of noise, much of it containing the words "what is the point of it, it only ever causes trouble to legitimate users of the software, it won't stop the pirates." That's the tidied up and de-sweared version of the response.
Imagine a situation where licensing of a piece of software to run in a virtualised environment was based not only on the CPU count of the virtual machine the software was to run on, but on the entire virtual environment. That's every CPU, on every host across the environment, which rather than 2 CPU's could easily be in the many hundreds of CPU's. Surely this is ridiculous, and based on the premise that the software vendor doesn't trust the large organisation purchasing the software, even though the penalties for abusing that trust are very high.
And then the software vendor says - the environment has to be completely isolated due to the technology having the ability to migrate the guest machine and software to other virtual environments within the organisation.
For goodness sake.
Get with the program daddio, in the words of the hip and cool. You don't need to travel to Delphi to get a prediction that this behaviour will limit your sales. But on the other hand I don't expect the business owner needs any more yachts, and in any case it could be a ploy to drive their 'cloud' service.
Here's a picture of a pleasant, if rather dark, woodland view to take my mind off the above completely made up madness.*
* Obviously it isn't true, it can't be, it's ridiculous.
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