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Hello, I am a developer and a first time poster in this forum. Let me give you a little background of where my company is now and where we need to go.

I work for a private software consulting firm and we have been working on a government contract for over a year now. We have already deployed a fully functional .Net Windows application to the client. As part of the option year or next round of development, the client has asked us to re-engineer the licensing schema.

Currently we are using XHEO licensing. While we have been generally happy with XHEO, the new requirements have me wondering if we need to take another direction. The client has already told us we can change license providers or schemas if we find a solution that better makes their business goals and objectives.

This is the current quandry. We have a .Net Windows application that needs "two tiers" of licensing. Basically we have two distinct scenerios.

1) Single user. In this case study a single stand alone user is given the .Net application on a CD. This user can activate or unlock their copy of the application with no stipulations. There should be a trial license or activation time period. After this period of time is over, they must make their copy of the application "official".

2) Company or Site. The same .Net Windows application can be installed at an "agency". This agency might have any number of users. The agency would contact our client and request the application. In this scenerio we need a "company" or "domain" wide licensing schema, which means the Licensing Administer does not have to unlock every machine or validate every machine. In addition, there is a concurrent user restriction. Meaning, if more than 5 users (an arbitrary number will need to be configurable) are using the application a 6th user is locked out until the "flag" can be passed to that user (or one of the five users stops using the application). Now note, this application IS STILL INSTALLED per machine, so each user will be running a local copy. I envision a server component would have to monitor the number of running copies are in use.

Can Infralution provide this sort of licensing infrastructure? Something easily maintainable that has a server component (but IIS or a web service *might* not be possible since this is a secure facility and all agencies will be secure facilities) which can be dynamic or smart enough to marshal a single user vs. "company" licensing schema.

Thanks in advance

Martin

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