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From: scott@capone.gatech.edu (Scott Holt)
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Subject: Network Licensing - Floating License Servers
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Date: 14 Mar 89 21:27:00 GMT
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Several months ago we began using FrameMaker publishing software on our Suns
on campus. One of the primary considerations for obtaining Frame over InterLeaf
was its support of a networked floating license server. The floating license
server approach allows us to provide software to a large number of machines
while keeping the cost at a reasonable level...buying enough single copies
of Frame to service all our possible users would have been too expensive.

As part of my job is software evaluation, I would like to hear about any other
packages which implement a networked licensing scheme similar to Frame's. I am
especially interested in those products which work in a heterogeneous 
environment as that is what we are growing here.

If you are an applications software vendor whose product uses a license server 
approach to network licensing, I would appreciate hearing from you. Also, if 
anyone in net land knows of papers on the topic of Network Licensing, I would 
appreciate hearing about them. I understand that Apollo has done a bit of work 
in this area.

Thanks in advance...

Scott Holt, Systems Analyst		Internet: scott@prism.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech				BITNET:	  CCUSESH@GITNVE2
Office of Computing Services
Atlanta, Ga 30332-0275