| Access Essentials Named-User Licensing Enforcement |
| Saturday, 07 October 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Licensing is a thorny issue - fundamentally it's an anti-feature - a 'feature' that's implemented for the benefit of vendor (in this case Citrix), rather than the customer (unless you subscribe to the view that enforcement takes the worry out of remaining compliant with the license). This means that whilst it must achieve our goal (protecting our product from unlicensed use), it also needs to have the least burden on customers we can achieve. We know the implementation in CAE 1.0 and 1.5 is creating some confusion, and we want to address this. Let's start with the basics. Access Essentials is licensed for a variable number (maximum 75) of Named-Users, in increments of 5 users. By Named-User we mean, literally, a named individual, a person. You purchase 15 licenses, 15 named individuals are allowed to use the product. Sounds simple, nothing to hard about that, you just have a list of 15 accounts and only allow people on that list to use the product, right? Read the rest of the article here.
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