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  • Subject: Re: Counting users
  • From: "Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:26:29 -0700

Hi Leif,

Aren't there api's for counting software licenses? Such that when you start
an instance of  an application, it adds 1 to the licenses in use, and when
the application ends, it subtracts one from licenses in use, and compares
the licenses in use to the number the customer paid for?

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: Counting users


> From: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@arbsol.com>
> >   If the per session price were reasonable then I believe you are
> > correct. It can be fairly argued that each additional session is of some
> > value to the user and therefore should be payed for. However at the
> > price many packages extort for a 'session' it is not an option. It also
> > could be argued that it's unlikely the user is actively utilzing more
> > than one session at any given moment. Depends on the definition of
> > 'utilizing'.
>
> ===> I'll adopt a simple operational definition:
> If any of my application's programs are on your invocation
> stack, you are using my application. what can be simpler?
>
> >
> > Leif Svalgaard wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't get it.
> > > It would seem to me that a reasonable (and correct?) and
> > > fair way of doing this is to count the number of simultaneous
> > > sessions (no matter who the users are and how they are signed
> > > on and to what) that are USING MY APPLICATION at any time.
> > > This is very easy to do.
>
>
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