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Resolved Legacy PowerBuilder Perpetual Licenses

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  1. Phillip Laster
    Phillip Laster
  2. PowerBuilder
  3. Tuesday, 26 June 2018 16:27 PM UTC

The company I work for has purchased perpetual PowerBuilder licenses for the 1990's and we do not have any documentation for these licenses due to the 'passage of time'.

The parent company is divesting the business unit that uses the PowerBuilder licenses that were deployed in the legacy system that runs PowerBuilder as a portion (sub-system) of this legacy system.

Any suggestions as to 'how to stay compliant' with licensing and having these perpetual licenses assigned to the divested business unit to continue using these licenses?

Note: The current PowerBuilder system runs without the need to upgrade and support is not required going forward.  Actually the legacy system ihas been around so long that it would be a substantial risk to the business unit to make any changes.  We're simply trying to ensure that the licenses are legally assigned to the business unit running PowerBuilder going forward.

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David Peace (Powersoft)
David Peace (Powersoft) Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 26 June 2018 16:39 PM UTC
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Hi

If you are not using the IDE to make ny changes to the software and are just using the compiled exe then there is not license issue. The runtime was royalty free, you only needed licenses for the Development IDE.

However, for clarity on the license details you would need to contact SAP as they are the issuers of the license.

Hope that helps.

Regards

David

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Tuesday, 26 June 2018 17:31 PM UTC
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Hi Philip;

      David's response is "right on" IMHO.

    However, depending on how old your release of PoweBuil.der is ... you might be facing upcoming MS-Windows and/or DBMS upgrades that will stop your current PB App from working properly.  Food for thought.

Regards ... Chris

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Kim Berghall
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  1. Tuesday, 26 June 2018 18:15 PM UTC
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I agree with David and Chris. In this type of scenario it is also worth mentioning to the acquiring company that PowerBuilder is now supported with upgrades available from Appeon. This is very beneficial since they know that an upgrade path is available, The only thing they need to do is to buy a new PB license (annual) and find a programmer or business that knows PowerBuilder. Typically this should not be a difficult task even if the system is very old.

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