can selectserver restrict usage to number of licenses owned ?

Somewhere in the past, selectserver used to limit usage.  This was awesome!  It kept us in compliance and kept our rep from calling.  But maybe all good things do come to an end.  Our users need to experience denial.  Maybe version 9 of selectserver will bring back some of the license management functionality we crave.  I want my license manager (selectserver) to do more than monitor and report.  Pooled and Trust Licensing are failing us.

Anyone have any info on this topic? 

thanks

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  • Trust Licensing is built upon the premise that licensing should not interrupt the legitimate user from getting his work done.  Isn't that the real objective here - to optimize the effective use of the software in order to get work done?  When a licensing mechanism gets so focused on enforcing a usage cap, it gets in the way of this effective use.  So we redesigned our licensing paradigm to intentionally eliminate interruption to the user, even if it came at the expense of just letting the application run, whether there is a license available or not.

    Take a look at this thread.

    communities.bentley.com/.../196790.aspx



  • Let's not be disingenuous here: the real objective is not to "optimize effective use of the software," it's to milk the consumer. You can spin it however you want, but the fact that if I do 5 minutes of design work I'm checked out for an hour of usage makes it pretty obvious "trust licensing" isn't tailored for OUR benefit.
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