- Delivers cost savings. Users buy what they need to run at maximum capacity instead of an individual license per user which wastes capacity - which leads to the capture of true capacity. Enterprises end up buying less licenses and dealing with less shelfware.
- Works best in 24/7 environments. Traditionally, concurrent user licenses have been popular in manufacturing and call centers.Global development organizations, call centers, enterprises with 2 or more shifts, and international enterprises can take advantage of a set number of licenses throughout various time zones and work shifts.
- Addresses licensing compliance. A set number of users have access to the system at any point in time. No requirements exist for licensing by an individual user - thus no wasted usage. Often, the process includes automatic license sharing where a license server will allocate a license until the total limit is reached. When a user leaves, a new slot is opened. Some systems have mechanisms to flex up and buy additional licenses on the spot when capacity is reached.
The bottom line for users.
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Copyrighted 2008 by R Wang. All rights reserved
3 comments:
For anyone who is interested or currently make use of floating licenses I highly recommend looking at www.openlm.com - it is a new software system that boost the use of FlexLM (macrovision product) so more users can benefit from an existing pool of licenses without having to buy more software licenses.
Nice article... got some good points!
Macrovision aren't the only ones around though. There are many other good ones like X-Formation: http://www.x-formation.com
Poul
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