Re: Another Glimpse Question (never mind)

[Bruce Alexander <balexand@webanswers.com>]

Thanks for the response, I figured you were probably away having fun somewhere
so I wasn't in so much of a hurry.

I'll have to wait to give you a firm response until I can confer with my boss
-- which may take to the end of the week as he's about to head up to the
Sierras.   However, I'd certainly be willing to give up our glimpseserver
interface code with documentation for a 50% discount on the $2000 site license
for glimpse/glimpseserver.

Here's some info on what you would get for your discount (I don't want to
oversell it to you).  The interface code is written in C and compiled as a
Solaris Shared Object.  It is then loaded into Netscape Enterprise Server Pro
(or any other server capable of using .so libraries) and called as a function
by server apps (in this case SSJS).  The purpose of the interface is just to
act as a conduit to the glimpseserver.  The interpretation and presentation of
the results are handled by the caller.  What you will receive is the shared
object function source code in Netscape format including function- and
line-level documentation.  I will include the compile instructions for
Solaris.  To convert this to some other format (including CGI) the code can be
included in other parameter format functions.  I've used this TCP/IP logic in
different remote invocation applications on foreign servers, so I know that it
works as CGI (but I haven't set up a foreign glimpseserver interface as cgi
yet... hmmmmmmmm.).

As soon as I have more info from my boss I'll get back to you with a firm
answer.  That should be by the end of the week.








Golda Velez wrote:

> Sorry for the delay! I was on vacation last week.
>
> We don't actually have a separate license agreement for glimpse, we just
> package them together.  But, I think we could give you some discount if you
> only need glimpse.  How about 25% discount from our posted prices - or 50%,
> if you can give me a nice package with your interface code and some docs
> ;-)  Or, let me know what you think is fair.
>
> --G
>
> At 02:48 PM 8/13/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >Never mind, I figured it out.  Interesting protocol... I can now interface
> >directly with glimpseserver from a shared object in a thread safe
> >environment.  -- I'd still like to know what the licensing agreement would
> >be for just glimpse/glimpseserver without webglimpse.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Bruce Alexander wrote:
> >
> >> I'm interested in experimenting with a direct program interface to
> >> glimpseserver from a shared object interface under Solaris.
> >>
> >> What input protocol is the glimpseserver expecting?  Is there a snippet
> >> of code I can look at that explains?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >
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