At 2/17/2007 02:55 PM, TMacNeil wrote:
>Not all products are like that. Maybe then the issue isn't so much
that keys are required, but the way they're sometimes implemented
by the vendor?
Sometimes? -- all the time. No vendor, that we use, has made keys easy to use!
Maybe "all the time" for you. Clearly not all the time for everybody.
As I implied in my prior post, maybe you need to lobby your vendor to
improve the usability of its licensing management.
>If keys were always received well before the old ones expired, and
all you had to do was enter them in a flat file, would that be a big deal?
Hasn't happened yet!
You can't change vendors?
Then is there a user's group for your vendor's customers?
If not, do you want to start one?
If these issues matter so much to you, then put energy into
organizing pressure to get your vendors to improve their code.
One way to start with the pressure is to stop being vague, stop with
the unfocused aspersions, and start naming names.
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
If you're too busy to do what you need to do, then maybe it's not all
that important to you after all.
Maybe instead you could put your own reminder into your own calendar
program to warn yourself enough ahead of time to get the relicensing
ball rolling within your own company. (Now there's a startling thought...)
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