On Thursday 09 February 2006 08:33, Joe Baker wrote: > I'm engineering a terminal server environment where I work. We plan on > making many applications available to nearly all users on the system. > However, with some of these applications we are limited to a certain > number of licenses.
Do you need to track this limit yourself or does it use a license server? > I would like to float the idea within > freedesktop.org that a part of the menu system might include some sort > of mechanism which would limit the number of concurrent users of a > certain piece of software. > > It is arguable that this function could be limited by a launcher script > rather than the menu. Yet I see an opportunity here for an extensible > framework model. > > Features I could imagine are user classes where some users could be > pre-emptable where their running copy would be stopped for someone else > to be able to use another floating license. > > I hope this doesn't appear off-topic. Well, it's called freedesktop.org and not runtimelimiteddesktop.org ;-) but I like to pretend that we are open minded towards sysadmin needs. Cheers, Waldo
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