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From: holbrook@apollo.COM (Alan R. Holbrook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: re:  NLS Servers
Message-ID: <405ee4e0.bf13@apollo.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 88 16:21:00 GMT
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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In a recent article, Dennis Cottel @ Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
writes:

>But my understanding is that each application is aimed at a
>particular license server; there isn't a way for the application to
>query multiple servers trying to find one that has a license
>available.  Is this correct?

No, this is _not_ correct.  Vendor licenses (those licenses sold by the
software supplier to authorize access to his product) may be installed
on any license server in your network.  When an application requests a
license to run, the license system _can_ ,and _does_, query as many license 
servers on the network as it needs to until it finds a license for that 
application or runs out of servers.

Alan Holbrook
Program Manager, Distributed Computing