Carina, I'm not sure what you mean by 'handled differently'....I know at some point around that area of versions licenses started being stored in the DB instead of in a file on the file system....and while it didn't change the need to buy licenses, it changed by the fact that you no longer need a license KEY for anything other than the Server itself.
Regarding your usage...as you know, Fixed licenses (other than admin), can't be logged on from more than one machine at a time...so unless you process is making modifications, you could turn that process into a read-restricted license, which doesn't suffer from the same problem....or you could even allocate a single Floating license to a pool, grant only these users access to that pool, and give them all their own ID's, but only one could make changes to the system at a time (that would allow for better tracking than mac id).... But in short...I don't know of any changes between those two versions that would stop your current efforts. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Carina Burns Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 7:04 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Fixed/Floating Licenses, chg after upgrade? Hello all, Over spring break I will be upgrading to ARS 7.1 patch 11. I've looked thru the docs, white papers, etc, but I've not found the answer I'm looking for in the mounds of information available. I want to know if licenses will be handled differently in ARS 7.1. We're currently on ARS 7.01. The reason I ask is we have an inquiry form for users and it logs in with a fixed license that's shared across the school district. We obviously don't have enough coin to buy a license for everyone for a form that's infrequently used. I've set up the form to log out the shared user id and even with the mac address tracking, it works well nearly all of the time. I'm not anxious to have to find another solution. Also, are there any show stoppers I should watch out for going from ARS 7.01 to 7.1? I've tested on a puny development box with 3 fixed licenses and so far so good. But, I figured I should tap the collective knowledge here before I impact the whole district. The production backend is Ora10g on linux and a Windows 2003 server running Apache Tomcat 5.0.27 and Crystal XI for the application server. Thanks! Carina _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
