[THIN] Re: regulate licenses

  • From: Dogers <dogers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:46:26 +0000

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:41:55 -0500, Bill Beckett <beckett.bill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If publishing a desktop, how do you guys regulate licensing for
> applications? In other words, let's say that I've got 25 licenses for
> Visio. I install it on a Terminal Server and 50 people have access to
> the Terminal Server.
> 
> From what I've read, technically you need 50 licenses because 50 users
> can "potentially" use it. Just wondered how most of you handled that.
> Assuming that Citrix is not installed on top so published apps were
> not possible.

Its one of those wierd situations.. Depending on who you speak to at
Microsoft, they'll tell you different things ranging from having 50
licenses, to limiting it via permissions to only those that need it
(ie the 25)

Andrew
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