Samer's suggestion makes a lot of sense. We can start with something like one 
floating dev. license + 2 OPL licenses and buy more later based on actual 
usage. On the pricing agreement, it probably makes sense to get a guarantee 
on the discounts  for additional licenses for one year (or till Dec.). I am 
definitely interested and can provide the share of funding necessary from my 
clients. 

Thanks,
Krishna.


From: Samer Takriti@ENRON COMMUNICATIONS on 05/19/2000 11:14 AM
To: Ravi Thuraisingham/Enron Communications@Enron Communications
cc: Chonawee Supatgiat/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Pinnamaneni 
Krishnarao/HOU/ECT@ECT@ENRON, samer_takriti@enron.net, Stinson 
Gibner/HOU/ECT@ECT@ENRON, Tom Halliburton/Corp/Enron@Enron, Vince J 
Kaminski/HOU/ECT@ECT 
Subject: RE: CPLEX floating license  

Chonawee and I just had a phone conversation with Cplex. There are other 
alternatives (products) that may help in saving time and cost. Chonawee and I 
feel that one floating develoment license, and one or two OPL (a package on 
sale that provides modeling and optimization features) licenses will do. In 
addition, we need floating deployment licenses. For the development licenses, 
the charges should be split "equally" between the different groups that may 
ask for optimization help (although it is hard to predict who may ask for 
future help). We are suggesting equally since these licenses are used to 
develop the needed solution but are not (in general) used to run the 
software. The deployment licenses can be charged on per-use basis for 
different groups.
Cplex is going to send us a new quote. We'll make the decision soon after 
that.
-Samer