[263] in Resnet-Forum
Re: File access across campus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel P. Cooper)
Fri Apr 29 13:29:52 1994
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1994 11:30:21 -0500
To: nschmidt@MIT.EDU, resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
From: joel.p.cooper.1@nd.edu (Joel P. Cooper)
At 11:56 AM 4/29/94 -0400, nschmidt@MIT.EDU wrote:
>>Do you do any license management of DOS software? If so, with what?
>
>Sassafras Software, the distributors of KeyServer for the Macintosh, will be
>extending functionality of that product so that it can also work with Windows
>software. That version should be coming out very shortly, and we're hoping
>to use it here at MIT so that we can deliver software for both platforms to
>students in our dormitories and independent living groups. Students would
>download "crippled" versions of the software using FTP, and KeyServer would
>limit the number of copies in use for a particular product at any one time.
>
> Naomi Schmidt
We use KeyServer extensively for Mac software license management and are
extremely happy with it. We have been beta testing KeyServer for Windows.
The latter requires IP support on the KeyServer "server", which has been
problematic until now (we received a fix just this week which we still need
to test).
KeyServer would provide an elegant solution for Windows software. The
inevitable question then is: "What do we do about DOS?" :-) If you have
an alternative to Saber, SiteLock, or anything that must run as a Netware
NLM I'd be very interested to hear.
Joel
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