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Comment on Can I restrict license usage to checkouts only?

BWiT

We also want a mechanism to restrict use to the number of licenses we have licensed - not have to implement a "workflow" in an attempt to mitigate over use! Are we expected to pay the over use QTL's while we implement this "workflow"?! And who pays for…
- over 8 years ago
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Open Access Complaint

John McDonald

I am part of a structural engineering consulting firm that uses several structural analysis software(s) from RAM/Bentley. We have been satisfied with the software up until around a month ago when the comically absurd pricing scheme was explained upon…
- over 8 years ago
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RE: Can we NOT opt to neither Select Open nor Select Basic?

bostr

Unknown said: Since 2006, if you utilized additional software licenses, you would have been asked to purchase additional perpetual licenses. I'm sorry Elisabeth, but this is incorrect. Up until recently (the last year?), if we utilized additional…
- over 8 years ago
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Open Access- a bad option

Thao Vuong

The Open Access program is Bentley's way of mandating and dictating customers how to govern their use of licenses and software expenditures. Opting into this will: 1. Prevent you from adhering to your budgets with unexpected overage costs 2. Take…
- over 8 years ago
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RE: Start Mstn with a script to check your own local database

MikeH

Why doesnt' Bentley offer us the ability to control our licenses? Why should we spend time and $ to come up with a workaround?
- over 8 years ago
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RE: Licensing / overuse or not

AndyCGN

I'm glad to see that we are not the only bentley users who feel very uncomfortable with the current way the licensing server works and invoices are calculated. Maybe there are companies who welcome this kind of overuse and payment system but in our…
- over 8 years ago
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RE: forced into SELECT Open Access...?

Kevin Wilson

Just got my over usage bill completely out of the blue..... ouch! Talked it through with our Account Manager and had to sit down for a while to take in what I was told. We can go over our licence quota without warning and then get a bill for it? I'm still…
- over 8 years ago
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