We are looking to purchase a seat or standalone license for the Arm Development Suite (ADS) version 1.2. Does anyone have a license they would like to sell? We have one customer application and can not justify ARM's Obsoletion price --------------------------------------- Posted through http://www.EmbeddedRelated.com
Arm Development Suite version 1.2
Started by ●September 2, 2010
Reply by ●September 2, 20102010-09-02
rsliwinski <Richard.Sliwinski@n_o_s_p_a_m.mt.com> wrote:> We are looking to purchase a seat or standalone license for the Arm > Development Suite (ADS) version 1.2. > Does anyone have a license they would like to sell? > We have one customer application and can not justify ARM's Obsoletion > priceADS is licensed via FlexLM just buying the box from someone won't help as you you would still need a license cut by ARM which matches the host id of your machine. -p -- Paul Gotch --------------------------------------------------------------------
Reply by ●September 2, 20102010-09-02
On Sep 2, 1:03=A0pm, Paul Gotch <pa...@at-cantab-dot.net> wrote:> rsliwinski <Richard.Sliwinski@n_o_s_p_a_m.mt.com> wrote:> > We have one customer application and can not justify ARM's Obsoletion > > price > > ADS is licensed via FlexLM just buying the box from someone won't help > as you you would still need a license cut by ARM which matches the host > id of your machine.There are ways (legal in some countries) to finagle that, though. The real problem is administrative, not technical: ARM doesn't sell the software, it sells a nontransferable license to use the software.
Reply by ●September 3, 20102010-09-03
"rsliwinski" <Richard.Sliwinski@n_o_s_p_a_m.mt.com> wrote in message news:Prmdna0tdod3E-LRnZ2dnUVZ_rSdnZ2d@giganews.com...> We are looking to purchase a seat or standalone license for the Arm > Development Suite (ADS) version 1.2. > Does anyone have a license they would like to sell? > We have one customer application and can not justify ARM's Obsoletion > priceI presume finger slipped in the spell checker? I haven't been involved in buying one copy of the software but I can see that the price (last time I checked) is unjustified for (probably) the best compiler on the market for what is a relatively niche product. It not really ARM's problem that you only want to use it once. You don't normally expect to go into a shop and be able to say "can I buy this as a discount because I only want to use it once". If you really want to do this on the cheap you should look at the GCC compiler, but (a) IME you will get a significantly interior executable and (b) I'd wager you'll waste as much in man hours using it as you've saved on the cost of the ARM equivalent - it's not the most user friendly tool to use. (Obviously if looking for 100 seats this overhead can be worth the cost, but for one, I wouldn't bother) tim