Opinions, thoughts on network licences

[gurudas.ku]

hi friends i am still in a confusion, we have 11 licenced copies of auto cad, adt and revit with individual authorization, now we are planing to upgrade to 2007 based products currently we have 3 copies of that also, but all are individual copies with individual authorization, i am planing to go for network licencing,pls give a expert hands to network licencing, i am the recommender to my company for softwares my decision will influence the purchase also

[DarrenYoung]

There's an ATP course in the July 2006 archives on this topic.

[rkmcswain]

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With network licensing, your licenses are stored on a server. Each client machine that attempts to start AutoCAD (or whatever product you are using), requests a license from the server. If a license is available then the software will startup, otherwise the software will not work.

If each user in your office is using the software all day, then network licensing probably offers no benefit for you. If you have a team of users who are in and out of the software during the day, then the additional cost of network licensing may pay off because you can purchase fewer licenses that you have users.

More info: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=4793616

[rkmcswain]

hi friends i am still in a confusion, we have 11 licenced copies of auto cad, adt and revit with individual authorization, now we are planing to upgrade to 2007 based products currently we have 3 copies of that also, but all are individual copies with individual authorization, i am planing to go for network licencing,pls give a expert hands to network licencing, i am the recommender to my company for softwares my decision will influence the purchase also

First, please tell us, Why do you think you want to go to network licensing?

Or have you already made this decision and now you are asking how to manage it?

[gurudas.ku]

hi
thanks for the update

[abdulhuck]

See http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=41592 for some more information.

Regards,

AbdulHuck