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RE: OpenG Serial drivers
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From: <Dou...@mk...> - 2005-01-14 21:50:02
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Folks, here is some more confirmation and information on this topic from our local NI field engineer, Steve Schiffhauer. In the interest of brevity and clarity I have omitted the intervening series of e-mails between Matt Dennie (who also works at MKS), Steve, and myself. Doug Femec ----- Forwarded by Doug Femec/US/MKS on 01/14/2005 04:33 PM ----- Matt & Doug, Sorry for 2 e-mails here. (I didn't see Matt's second e-mail) The Product Manager told me that by the end on next month, this will all be documented on a web page for customers. He understood the confusion in our current licenses and as part of this 10 free to 100 free licensing change, he is moving to better document our policies for both internal and external customers. Steve ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Schiffhauer Field Engineer National Instruments 3177 Latta Rd #322 Rochester, NY 14612 (585) 723-2005 ste...@ni... ----- Forwarded by Doug Femec/US/MKS on 01/14/2005 04:33 PM ----- Doug, I just spoke to the Product Manager for GPIB, VISA, etc last night. He confirmed what this e-mail said. The first 100 installations are free. Steve ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Schiffhauer Field Engineer National Instruments 3177 Latta Rd #322 Rochester, NY 14612 (585) 723-2005 ste...@ni... |---------+---------------------------------------------------> | | "Mark Balla" <mb...@Ch...> | | | Sent by: | | | ope...@li...ur| | | ceforge.net | | | | | | | | | 01/13/2005 04:47 PM | | | Please respond to | | | opengtoolkit-developers | | | | |---------+---------------------------------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: "'ope...@li...'" | | <ope...@li...> | | cc: "Adam. Sweet (E-mail)" <ada...@ni...> | | Subject: RE: OpenG Serial drivers | >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| The Wisconsin User Group Steering comity Just recently ask our District Sales Manager this NI Visa question. He did some research and replied with this response. Good afternoon all, The $395 NI-VISA license is only applicable if you are building your own hardware and would like to use the NI-VISA layer. Today, our licensing policy DOES NOT require a customer to pay a licensing fee for NI-VISA if the deployment target contains NI hardware or software written using NI development software. In the scenario where you have a LabVIEW VI or EXE talking on a built-in serial port, National Instruments allows the first 10 distributions for free and after that we require a licensing fee. We are about to change our licensing policy to allow up to 100 distributions per application for free and after that require a license. So the short story is that if you are an end-user or alliance member, this is a non-issue and NI-VISA will continue to be free. Thank you, Adam Sweet Mark Balla Sr. Test Engineer Cherry Electrical Products 11200 88th Ave. Pleasant Prairie, WI 53158-0913 Phone: 262-942-6420 Cell: 847-721-2047 Fax: 262-942-6411 Email mb...@ch... This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. |
