Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

[Bill Campbell]

While I fully understand the reasons for licenses and license managers, I
will not use any product for mission-critical systems (i.e.  accounting or
other systems where inability to run the system can put a company out of
busines without access to their data).

We stopped upgrading and developing systems on Unify when Unify changed the
licensing of their RDBMS, on which we built our accounting applications, to
use a license manage with licenses that had an indeterminate expiration
date, and were keyed to something in hardware that would change during a
restore.  There was no way I would subject our customers to a situation
where there system might become unusable if (a) the license period expired
or we had to do a crash recovery and could not get support immediately to
make the license work.  The lack of support might be because it was a
weekend or the licensing company went out of business.  Whatever might
cause the situation would be totally out of my control.

Microlite has been extremely responsible in the way they handle licensing,
particularly in allowing emergency restores.

We have customers who have been using our applications for over 20 years,
far longer than the lifespan of many software vendors.

Bill
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