[plug] open source concurrent software management

[Denis Brown]

Thanks, Craig and John.

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>>access.   For the N+1'th and above person a message arrives saying "no 
>>more licenses are avaialble at this time, please try later" or similar.
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>Is this something that is intended to enforce a license restriction not 
>offered directly by the application (ie the app  would let you run as many 
>copies as you want, but you're only licensed for 10 and want to enforce 
>that limit for users)?

Yes that is correct.

>If so, (a) I find the thought of intentionally introducing an unnecessary 
>point of failure in the network very unpleasant, and (b) I've never heard 
>of any free or open source tool to do that. It would seem ... bizarre.

Hmmm... I see what you mean :-)

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>Many vendors actually SELL the license server, despite the fact that its 
>only purpose is to limit what you can do and introduce another point of 
>failure in your network.

I'll get my colleague to follow up that point.

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>OK, so you're looking for a $0 clone of one of these products to save some 
>cash? Or are you looking for a not-necessarily-zero-cost service that'll 
>run on Linux? I find it rather hard to determine from your rather vague 
>email what exactly you're looking for.

Sorry for the confusion.   Either option would be okay but involving Linux 
would be a bonus.

Will get colleague to pursue the vendor.   Thanks.

Denis