A half-compelling case -for- the license manager.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 02:25:06PM -0500, GCC Consulting wrote:
> [ Fairlite wrote: ]
> > It appears, if I was informed correctly, that you can have 
> > the license manager serve multiple machines, and the seats 
> > are issued rather like DHCP addresses are 
> > leased...dynamically across machines.  So if I was told 
> > correctly, you can have one machine using 6 seats and another 
> > using 10, or they might be 4 and 12 or 11 and 5, etc.
> > 
> > Assuming that's true, that's actually a selling point for the 
> > license manager that might make it a bit more attractive.
> 
> One license manager is all that is needed.  You can point to the machine
> running the manager from anywhere.

That wasn't Mark's point.

He was asking if the licenses are "floating" or "seat-locked".

I believe he's right in understanding that they're floating.

But: what I don't know is how they handle multiple sessions on a single
PC.  I would *assume* you're licensing for "users", not for "sessions". 
But this being fPtech, I'd probably be wrong.

> As for trusting clients, I had to write some code which disabled my textile
> brokerage application if moved of the system it was installed on.  Had a
> broker leave a company and take a copy of my program with him.  This is my
> work product and I like to be paid for my programs.  

Well, sure.  But that was someone who wouldn't be paying you *anyway*.

> This also insured that I handled all hardware upgrades for my clients.  
> 
> In the best of all worlds we wouldn't need licensing.  But this is not the
> best of all worlds.  

I dunno.  Look at Linux.  :-)

Cheers,
- jra
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