Licensing and evaluation
Perpetual licensing tiered by processor class, and an evaluation that converts without reinstallation.
Xi Software products are licensed perpetually. You buy the licence once and it does not expire.
A licensed system keeps running whether or not a renewal is offered, and whoever owns the product in future. See also Sovereignty as standard.
How licensing works
Perpetual
The licence does not expire and does not require renewal to keep running.
Tiered by processor class
Pricing follows the capacity of the machine the product runs on, mapped into classes. A small server costs less than a large one.
Quantity discounts
Available for multiple systems, so an estate costs less per machine than a single one.
Secondary licensing
Development and test environments are priced separately, so a test system is not charged at production rates.
Platform moves are free within a class
Move an installation from one platform to another and, provided the processor class does not change, there is no additional licence fee. We supply the installation codes for the move.
Because a platform move within a class carries no licence fee, a migration off HP-UX, Solaris or AIX adds no licence cost.
Maintenance and support
Maintenance is a separate annual contract, and optional. It covers telephone and email support during the hours in your agreement, fixes and workarounds, and maintenance releases. Licence codes can be regenerated through the licence tool or the customer portal at any time.
Standard cover is 09:00 to 17:30 UK time on UK working days, and 24x5 and 24x7 cover are available.
More about support and services
Evaluation
Evaluation copies are available on request and convert to licensed status without reinstallation. When you buy, the system you evaluated becomes the licensed system, with no rebuild or re-testing.
Evaluations install in minutes, make no kernel modifications, need no relational database, and do not interfere with your existing scheduling or printing - so you can run them alongside what you have.
To request one, tell us which product, the operating system and release you will evaluate on, and roughly what you need it to do.
Pricing
We quote rather than publish a price list, because pricing depends on the processor class, the number of systems and the licensing structure that fits your organisation.
Tell us what you are running and we will give you a figure.