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From: scott%capone@gatech.edu (Scott Holt)
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Subject: Network Licensing - Floating License Servers
Keywords: Software
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Date: 30 Mar 89 03:34:00 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