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Re: Athena Disconnected Operation White Paper Draft 2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue May 28 15:25:28 2002
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Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 15:25:25 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Gary writes, in response to Larry:
} and at least some of it has network licensing. FrameMaker comes to
} mind (doesn't anyone else like Frame?) but no doubt there are others.
>Yes Larry, I like Frame quite a bit, and have all my training materials
>migrated into it. Which probably means that it, too, is doomed.
We'll have Frame until Adobe drops UNIX completely (I think FrameMaker is
just about their last UNIX product, except for Acrobat). Frame 7 just came
out for Solaris and I hope to have it installed soon.
And to Larry's original comment-
Most of the major Athena Third Party software packages (FrameMaker,
Maple, Matlab, Mathematica, Tecplot, Xess, Splus and others) have
floating license managers, which require the network to operate. However
they would work if the bits are installed locally and a low-bandwidth
network (wireless?) is available to contact the license server. However
we would then get into some licensing issues as a number of applications are
licensed only for "Athena machines".
Alex
