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

[GCC Consulting]

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> 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
> -- 
> Jay R. Ashworth                   Baylink                     
>  jra at baylink.com
> Designer                     The Things I Think               

New licensing is a per session model.  Each session opened on one pc is 1
session.

The nominclature is wrong, it should read some many sessions not so many
users.

Although the new licensing model with being able to run both clerk and
report using 1 session, this has caused some consternation for those who had
5 user licensed and now need to have a 15 or 20 user runtime license as they
have 3 people who open 3 or 4 sessions on their pc's.  It's tough to explain
why if they upgrade they need to buy more users when for years this wasn't
the case.  Of course, those with bigger licenses because of using clerk
system calls to print reports can now reduce the user count saving their
client's money.

Win some, loss some.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting