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Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Support issues for windows in UK HE & FE [mailto:WINDOWS-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Aldridge, Steve
> Sent: 15 December 2009 13:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Floating license (concurrent usage) control software
>
> This is a frustrating one. We have tried various things over the years
> the last one being a product by IBM but this ended in failure. If there
> isn't a broker supplied with the software, anything we have tried has
> proved to be unreliable in the long term.
>
>
> The IBM product we looked at appeared to have lots of features we liked
> but there was a heavy load keeping the database up to date as versions
> of executables changed with minor updates and so forth.
>
> Steve Aldridge
>
> Computing Services Department
> University of Liverpool
> Brownlow Hill
> L69 3BX
> Tel 0151 794 4582
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Support issues for windows in UK HE & FE [mailto:WINDOWS-
> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin Sapsed
> Sent: 15 December 2009 13:52
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Floating license (concurrent usage) control software
>
> R Pank wrote on 15/12/2009 13:13:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have number of applications (Windows EXE - without the source
> code),
> > which
> > we want to control as a floating license (concurrent usage). e.g. if
> we
> > set a limit
> > 10 concurrent users, no more than 10 users can access at any one
> time.
> >
> > e.g. our Maths software, Matlab, comes with its own FlexLM (FlexNet)
> > license. What
> > we want to do is to do similar concurrent use for other applications.
> >
> > Does anybody know of any open source or other solution at a
> reasonable cost?
>
> We've been wanting something like that for years but never found it!
>
> A number of other packages come with their own stuff these days (inc
> SPSS) but usually it's their own stuff rather than a common standard
> like Flex. (or at least what Flex used to be like - we've seen things
> which only work with the windows version of Flex.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
> --
> Martin Sapsed
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> IT Services "Who do you say that I am?"
> Bangor University Jesus of Nazareth
>
>
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