Alistair - We have explored this issue as well for a government agency we have done extensive work for. I do not think that the current MI Pro "licensing" design, 8.0 and older, will achieve what you are after. More likely this will be provided for in the .NET versioning? As a developer, I can signal you that MapInfo externalizes this "concurrent" user on us. We turned to Macrovision's solution. A bit pricy at $16,000 but where you have so many users that could check-out a license for a day or more, it does provide a solution... which may cheaper than updating all your copies? You can administer other licensed products via the Macrovison solution as well.
http://www.macrovision.com/ As for the runtime sensitivity, MapInfo justifiably does not like to see a Runtime interface that essentially exposing a MI Pro for it's shadow price. If you are interested in a platform that could suggest where MapInfo might be going in its still un-seen .NET solution, take a look at Exponare. Exponare is built on MapXtream (in rumor the logical engine for future MIP) and IMHO has some really neat enterprise designs within it. Most of the Exponare code work is done in MapInfo's Brisbane offices FYI. I would be interested in what you find out as well. Catch you in the New Year! neil Verrierdale, QLD 0419741644 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alistair Hart Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:48 PM To: <MapInfo-L Subject: [MI-L] concurrent licensing for MIPro Hi Folks, Has anyone ever heard of a concurrent licensing deal being struck between an organisation and MI before?? As an interim step between adhoc use of MapInfo and a full blown enterprise solution, I'd like to negotiate with MI a concurrent license where we may install MI locally on more machines than we have licenses for, but manage use in such a way that we won't be using anymore than x licenses at any one time. The rationale is that we are a growing user of spatial information, with a core skill group in MapInfo and increasing demand from novice users. Until we reach a point where we can a) justify a sole GIS resource to assist novice users or b) justify an enterprise-wide GIS solution, I'd like to be able to get more use out of our (not very) current 35 licenses (we would rarely have more than 3 users at a time, in a geographically distributed organisation of nearly 70,000 people). If anyone has such an example of concurrent licensing (is this the right phrase??), I'd be very pleased to hear about it... Cheers!! Alistair ***************************************************************** This email, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost, if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this email is strictly prohibited. The information contained in this email, including any attachment sent with it, may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this email in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone collect on Australia +61 1800 198 175 or by return email. You should also delete this email, and any copies, from your computer system network and destroy any hard copies produced. If not an intended recipient of this email, you must not copy, distribute or take any action(s) that relies on it; any form of disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email is also prohibited. Although Queensland Health takes all reasonable steps to ensure this email does not contain malicious software, Queensland Health does not accept responsibility for the consequences if any person's computer inadvertently suffers any disruption to services, loss of information, harm or is infected with a virus, other malicious computer programme or code that may occur as a consequence of receiving this email. Unless stated otherwise, this email represents only the views of the sender and not the views of the Queensland Government. **************************************************************** _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
