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From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Experiences with "The Publisher" from ArborText
Message-ID: <1077@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 88 16:57:50 GMT
References: <318@apex.UUCP> <3995@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> <7262@sol.ARPA>
Reply-To: akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Atul Kacker)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
Lines: 33
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, WYSIWYG

In article <7262@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>|Let me repeat this. If you have 30 Suns, and you get a 5 user license,
>|Publisher can be used on ANY of the 30 machines. But only 5 at a time.
>|
>|
>|FINALLY! A software vendor has come out of the dark ages!
>
>I don't get it.
>
>Is this enforced in the software?  So what happens when a secretary
>wants to use Publisher but 2 other secretaries and 3 grad students are
>already using it?  Go persuade somebody to logoff? Fume? (This is not a
>hypothetical situation. It can be very real with a big user community.)

It is not enforced in the software, I don't think.  If you think that
you will have more than 5 people wanting to use it at any one time, you just
get a bigger or unlimited license.  C'mon you don't want to have lots of
people using the product at the same time and not pay for it, do you ? ;-)
I think it is great that they have a limited license at all.
There are many users and sites that have only a few Suns and would rather
not pay for an unlimited license.


(filler for that %*&^(** inews)





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