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From: LEO@PINE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU (Leo Wierzbowski)
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"But is there a way
to trick the system so that it will allow users to check out
only as many copies of Word/Excel as I buy liscences?"

I would recommend using either LaunchBreak from U. Mich. or LabLaunchers 
(ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu).  I think you can ftp the docs for 
LaunchBreak from freebie.engin.umich.edu.  Both packages are freeware.

"I have about 70 users split into two zones over 7 Shiva bridges.
Are the appletalk users going to get fast enough performance
openning Applications which live on the LAN server? On the one
hand this could be a really good excuse to go ethernet :-) but
up to now we haven't really needed to ethernet all the Macs.
The LAN server would be on Ethertalk bridged to each Zone by a
Fastpath."

Going through a FastPath is much slower than going over LocalTalk
alone.  You MUST put your Macs on EtherNet if your server is on
EtherNet, otherwise your users will avoid your server like the plague.
It would be slower than using floppies!

Sincerely,
Leo Wierzbowski
CIRCA
Univ. of Florida
leo@pine.circa.ufl.edu