On 11/30/2013 09:13 AM, Ashley Breeden wrote:
The only issue with the current model is that there is no real easy way to manage the licenses, so if you buy 3 for your testing server and then decide you want to go to a production model you need to then purchase another set leaving your 3 original licenses dormant.
I think it would be a "nice to have" if we could somehow reissue licenses so when you retire an old server you can move your licenses to another server. Over the years I have purchased in excess of 100 channels and I think I am only using probably half of them as a bulk are linked against old servers that I have decommissioned. I think the patent owners of G729 get enough money for G729 without us giving them extra money when we already own licenses.
This is going back a few years, but Howler Technologies used to have a site based model where you could pool the licenses together and have multiple servers use the licenses, perhaps this is why they went out of business, I never really found out what happened there just one day my licenses expired!
Site licences are a nice idea, but usually a PITA in reality. They are the norm for CAD, and anyone who has worked in design will have had days when the sat around because the licencing was all messed up. You really don't want that in telephony, so we didn't attempt to offer site licencing. I am interested in what happened to your Howler licences. They supplied some time limited licences, but you seem to be saying your licences were supposed to be perpetual. Its rather naughty if they were sold as perpetual, but were not. The only way is ethics. Regards, Steve