Licensing RTC for a small company
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you can add payed developer for workgroup licenses to the 10 free developers. In this model you have community on jazz.net support for all (12) licenses. If you would prefer having 24x7 IBM support for all (12) licenses, you need need to purchase the RTC Developer for Workgroups Starter Pack. This will "convert" your 10 free in to 10 "paid" with 24x7 support...
Hope that helps
Hajo
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Ok, thank you Hajo.
I would not recommend using the Derby database for any production work, so if you are only using the free licenses, I would recommend using DB2 Express-C, which you are entitled to use with the free licenses. Tomcat should be fine for 10 or fewer users.
The Free licenses limit you to deployment on Tomcat only, and to either Derby or DB2 Express-C. You do not have entitlement to licenses of DB2 Workgroup or Enterprise Edition, or to WAS.
In order to get entitlement to WAS and DB2 Workgroup/Enterprise you have to have valid IBM purchased licenses - basically convert the free licenses to a Developer for Workgroups Starter Pack and you are fine!
Ok, to sum up, we have 2 options:
1. Stick with the 10 free licenses + 2 Developer for Workgroups with
- DB2 Express-C
- Tomcat
- Community Support
- DB2 for Workgroups / DB2 Enterprise
- WebSphere Application Server or Tomcat
- Full 24/7 Support
Thank you,
Daniel
Hi Geoff,
what's the cause you don't recommend using Derby database for production work?
Data loss, security or something else?
Greetings,
Simon
Derby's not that great a database to use. I find 'real' databases much easier to query. Besides, if you want to use more than 10 users, you can't use derby anyway (at least according to RTC server installation instructions).
As for the version of RTC, I'd recommend using the latest release. I have found trying to use the 10 'free' licenses difficult when looking at RTC 4.0, the 10 'free' licenses didn't work at first, took a while for them to fix the 10 free users (there was one out there that I had to hunt for that turned out to be a 10 user 90 day trial version).
I wished RTC would support more than the big three expensive db's (db2, oracle, sql server). Not sure if you can use the free version of oracle (oracle database express edition) to support more-than-10 if you are an oracle-database shop.
oh, didn't see that the 10 free users limit you to derby/db2. I guess that answers the oracle question!
Yes, performance is the only reason I recommend against using Derby for production use.
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Davyd Norris
Mar 24 '13, 7:33 p.m.Hey mate!! Long time no talk!
Ping me and I'll go through it with you - by far the best option for you would most likely be the Developer for Workgroups Starter Pack plus a couple of top ups. But call or email me.
Dave