Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!convex!texsun!newstop!exodus!exodus-bb!khb From: khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM () Newsgroups: comp.unix.large Subject: Re: license manager software for workstation clusters? Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 22:49:30 GMT References: <53500001@hpindda.cup.hp.com> Sender: news@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun MegaSystems Lines: 51 In-reply-to: spero@hpindda.cup.hp.com's message of 2 Apr 91 00:38:27 GMT ...request for info about net license software... from a press release laying about... UniPress will serve as a "one-stop shop" for software developers, offering development kits for the Sun-3(TM) and SPARC machines from Sun and other companies, in addition to those systems from Hewlett-Packard, DEC and IBM. UniPress is calling its SunNet License product "Net License." The Net License development kit includes client libraries, which are linked to an application, and a license production tool, which is used to generate licenses. The kit also includes Net License for end users, which developers can distribute to their customers without any royalties. Like SunNet License, this end user portion consists of a license server (a database that maintains the pool of licenses and logs all transactions) and a license administration tool. Besides offering development kits, UniPress will make Net License source code available to hardware and software companies. These companies can then incorporate the license source code into their own software products or hardware platforms. UniPress will offer these vendors any necessary technical support. While Net License will be available to developers from UniPress, Sun will continue to include it free of charge with every Sun application that uses it. Once delivered, SunNet License can be copied freely throughout an organization. SunNet License consists of scalable client/server software that allows applications to be licensed on a "concurrent usage" basis. Concurrent usage licensing is superior to typical licensing arrangements under which a company must buy an individual license for every user who requires access to a given software package. A concurrent usage licensing model allows software licenses to "float" among many users. ...end include I know little about the implementation, and nothing about the marketing. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM SMI 2550 Garcia 12-33 | (415 336 2648) Mountain View, CA 94043