License for Ansi C and Perl

[Nancy Calderón_2]

Hello Team,

I would like to know if I use Ansi C and Perl in my PA-RISC server, If need to license it for CPU or for user ?

Can any one else please, help me to find out the question ?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Nancy C.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Perl is available for FREE! No cost at all.
Perl info. and downloads:
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=PERL

ANSI C is a product that you have to buy. The retail price is $816 per CPU. You should be able to find a reseller that will give you some sort of discount.

Info available here for C / ANSI C:
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B3901BA

[Nancy Calderón_2]

Hi Patrick!

Thanks for your quick response :)

So I must understand that the licensing of Ansi C is only for CPU not for users ?

Do yo know if there is a link to get more info? Because I have not found any thing concerning that.

Tnxs
Nancy

[Patrick Wallek]

The link I provided should answer most questions you have.

The ANSI C product is licensed according to the number of CPUs in your system. The number of users logged into the system does not matter.

[Nancy Calderón_2]

Hi Patrick,

I have found that HP C/ANSI C Developer Bundle, is licensed for Server, but if you choose the ANSI C++ Compiler the license is sold for user, which increase for much more the price.

Thanks for your help,
NC

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

I'm just wake, and the thread is closed, but I want to add two notes:

1. Though HP C-ANSI-C (and C++) are very good (ANSI) compilers, GNU gcc (and g++) are available for free, and perform quite well nowadays.

2. Most prebuilt binaries of Perl for HP-UX are compiled with GNU gcc, and if you plan to add modules to Perl later that need to be compiled, it makes your life a lot easier if you can do that with the same compiler that Perl was built with, because the command line options to both compilers are not the same.

Side note: perl compiled with HP C-ANSI-C runs up to 15% faster than perl compiled with GNU gcc, depending on how you use it. Typically it will be around 4%, and the more recent your gcc version, the less the difference is (a 64bit threaded perl compiled with gcc-3.0.4 is 40% slower than the same built with HP C-ANSI-C, but you don't need threaded perl anyway :)

Both are not only available through the link posted by Patrick, but also very recent from my site:

My HP ITRC site pages can be found at (please use LA as primary choice):

USA Los Angeles http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/
SGP Singapore https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/
USA Chicago http://ww.hpux.ws/merijn/
NL Hoofddorp http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn [ a perl5 porter ]