Deal Breaker if True

[Richard Kreiss]

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Here we go again,

Login with a dclerk session 1 user
System out to another dclerk 0 user
System out again. 0 user

Only the first call to dclerk counts against the license. 

Since we are talking Windows, opening another window and sitting on a menu. 0 user. Run dclerk or dreport 
1 user.  

Same person now is using 2 license session. 

I have a client whose office manager keeps open 5 windows accessing clerk. She is using 5 license sessions. She has to log into the system which executes their main menu. 

If you have 12 users with 5 sessions each running clerk. you would need a 60 user license. 

Do your users really need to keep open all of these sessions or is this habit because before the license manager one could do this on a windows system while those on *nix could not?

Can your users drop back to a menu when not working or referencing a session?  This may take some retraining but would save on allowing for a lower license count. 

Yes, it would have been better if the license counted seats rather the sessions but that's the way the license manager works. 

You need to consider the value of more indexes as well as the other new functions available with 5.7. 


Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting
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On May 24, 2012, at 1:56 AM, mikefedkiwfp <mikefedkiwfp at aol.com> wrote:

> I was just reading the below post.
> 
> If that is the way filepro implemented the licensing I guess I will never be able to upgrade. Hell, I would probably have to buy over a 100 licenses for 10-12 people. That would just be ridiculous.
> 
> There are multiple windows and system commands flying all over the place on all out terminals.
> 
> Someone please tell me it's not the case.
> 
> Mike Fedkiw
> ====================================================================================
> 
> The filepro license is actually a session license not a user count license.
> 
> 5 users with 2 open windows running filePro ea = 10 sessions.  Requires a 10
> user license.
> 
> This was discussed when the license manager was first implemented.
> 
> Please keep in mind that until the license manager, the windows version of
> filePro did not keep track of users or sessions as far as I am aware.
> 
> On *nix systems the user count was tracked and each instance of either clerk
> or report run was considered a user count even if report was run from a
> system call from clerk.
> 
> With the license manager this changes and the user count is incremented when
> either a clerk or report is run but not when sitting on a menu.
> 
> I have a client who needed a 30 user license as his office manage opened 5
> sessions and he has staff both in his office and who log in remotely.
> 
> This is how this was implemented and as windows users it is annoying.
> However filePro is not the only company to have a session count.  QuickBooks
> also uses a session count.
> 
> I think this issue has kept a lot of people from upgrading.  I have not had
> this problem with my client's as I have explained this to them  plus they
> needed some of the upgrades which 5.6 and now 5.7 offer.  It is a trade-off
> that one needs to be aware of.
>    
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