Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!eda!jim
From: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Re: = An Imaginary Scenario =
Message-ID: <329@eda.com>
Date: 15 Nov 88 07:24:55 GMT
References: <10441@s.ms.uky.edu> <39670001@hpindda.HP.COM>
Reply-To: jim@eda.com (Jim Budler)
Organization: EDA Systems,Inc. Santa Clara, CA
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In article <39670001@hpindda.HP.COM> jack@hpindda.HP.COM (Jack Repenning) writes:
>> ... If the number of concurrently running copies of frame matches the
>> limit on your license, your copy goes into "demo" mode.
>
>This would need some tuning for the university environment - the FrameMaker
>solution doesn't distinguish the various copies, only the number of them.
>So, as long as any ten students had bought rights to program X, up to ten
>(not necessarily paying) students could use it.

Not quite true. Frame has a concept of 'reserved' users. Our reserved
users are the Documentation Department. Our 'non-paying guests' are
any other engineer, etc. The reserved users can bump the others. The others
can still save their work, just not continue until a license is free.

The frame system also provides for idle release of licenses. Altogether
it works pretty well. I just wish it provided usage reports so I could
decide when we needed more licenses on a more rational basis than when
the complaints exceed a noise threshold.

jim
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