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Many of our customers have asked for this feature so that they can run software that is licensed for a particular piece of actual hardware.

stephengillie 11y ago
To think of it another way, smaller companies might save money by buying bare metal and renting colo space. But larger companies would spend more just managing the separate bill for the colo, not to mention the logistics of another datacenter.
- iofj 11y ago
  Given that there is a 10x price difference in some cases, I would doubt this. The bigger a company is, the more sense colo or dedicated makes. You don't have to manage a datacenter just because you don't go for Amazon. There's tons of companies that will do it for you, at various levels. You want colo space, nothing more ? Fine. You want dedi hosts with a few of your own machines in between ? No problems. On top of that, a lot of dedicated server companies will have spare instance so spinning up new devices is certainly easy enough. Feel free to contact me if you need solutions like this. I think there's one huge advantage of Amazon : management effectively doesn't get to set policy on the datacenter, so they don't get to screw it up. An internal company department would use something like VMWare and won't let you spin something up without endless approvals, whereas Amazon treats you like a customer.
cortesoft 11y ago
So it is a feature designed for a silly license scheme?
- blantonl 11y ago
  I don't mean this to sound condescending, but you have a lot to learn about software licensing. There are many software packages that are licensed to an individual peice of hardware. Tied to that are USB authentication dongles, and even parallel port dongles for some old school commercial software.
  - insertnickname 11y ago
    That sounds like a silly license scheme to me.
  - cortesoft 11y ago
    Yep, you sounded condescending. I think after 25 years in the industry I know a lot about software licensing. Enough to know that just because lots of software packages are licensed that way doesn't change the fact that they are silly.
- dagw 11y ago
  Silly license schemes are annoyingly common and being able to deal with silly license schemes is a massive killer feature for very many people.
motoboi 11y ago
Could you list some examples?
- modoc 11y ago
  Many Oracle products must be licensed for all the physical hardware they run on, irrespective of VMs (unless you're running OracleVM).

stephengillie 11y ago

To think of it another way, smaller companies might save money by buying bare metal and renting colo space. But larger companies would spend more just managing the separate bill for the colo, not to mention the logistics of another datacenter.

iofj 11y ago
Given that there is a 10x price difference in some cases, I would doubt this. The bigger a company is, the more sense colo or dedicated makes. You don't have to manage a datacenter just because you don't go for Amazon. There's tons of companies that will do it for you, at various levels. You want colo space, nothing more ? Fine. You want dedi hosts with a few of your own machines in between ? No problems. On top of that, a lot of dedicated server companies will have spare instance so spinning up new devices is certainly easy enough. Feel free to contact me if you need solutions like this. I think there's one huge advantage of Amazon : management effectively doesn't get to set policy on the datacenter, so they don't get to screw it up. An internal company department would use something like VMWare and won't let you spin something up without endless approvals, whereas Amazon treats you like a customer.

cortesoft 11y ago

So it is a feature designed for a silly license scheme?

blantonl 11y ago
I don't mean this to sound condescending, but you have a lot to learn about software licensing. There are many software packages that are licensed to an individual peice of hardware. Tied to that are USB authentication dongles, and even parallel port dongles for some old school commercial software.
- insertnickname 11y ago
  That sounds like a silly license scheme to me.
- cortesoft 11y ago
  Yep, you sounded condescending. I think after 25 years in the industry I know a lot about software licensing. Enough to know that just because lots of software packages are licensed that way doesn't change the fact that they are silly.
dagw 11y ago
Silly license schemes are annoyingly common and being able to deal with silly license schemes is a massive killer feature for very many people.

motoboi 11y ago

Could you list some examples?

modoc 11y ago
Many Oracle products must be licensed for all the physical hardware they run on, irrespective of VMs (unless you're running OracleVM).