NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/sun/apps/1439

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From: [e-mail] (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: No more floating licenses for FrameMaker?
Keywords: Frame, license
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:36:13 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail] (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Markus Stumptner) writes:
<We intended to upgrade our FrameMaker 2.0 installation to 3.0.  Now
<our local representative told us that there are no more floating
<licenses, i.e., you need a license for every machine you run it on.
<This would about triple the price for an upgrade for us (apart from
<the fact that we would have to buy it new for two thirds of our
<machines).  Not surprisingly, we are severely pissed off at this.  The
<floating licenses were a key argument in our decision to buy
<FrameMaker instead of Interleaf, some years ago.  Has there been a
<global change of policy by Frame Technology, or are we just dealing
<with a distributor who wants to make some fast money?

Someone is pulling your leg.  We are using 3.1X on the SPARCstations on our
network and it is indeed a floating license arrangement.  We even recently
added another float to our group.

When you upgrade to 3.1, the same license manager file can be used.  You can
even run the 2.0 version at the same time you are running 3.1.  If you have
three licenses, you can have a combination of either version up to your license
limit.  We do that here because we have some people that have to run SunView.
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