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Posted by Jason on February 15, 2007, 1:32 pm
Please log in for more thread options I totally agree. I have about 10 stations that I use to access three
licenses. This allows multiple people at thier desktop to be a POS while
having only as many licenses as you need to run concurrently.
A huge step backward is absolutely tright, and I am glad this came up,
because now I have a major reason I CANNOT "upgrade" to 2.0.
Boneheaded...
> This licensing setup seems to be taking a "huge step" backwards.
>
> Let's take the very simple scenario of a single user license for POS and
> you have 3 systems with RMS completely installed on it - 1 being the DB
> server, 1- primarily a back office/manager system, and 1 POS station. You
> have a failure at the POS station during the day and want to bring POS up
> on the back office system while you fix the POS station.
>
> With today's dongle setup - no problems. With license keys - it appears
> you are "dead in the water" unless you want to pay for a 2nd license key
> that you really hope to never use - and OBTW, also pay support charges for
> 2 POS stations each year.
>
> --
>
> John M.
>>
>> andy - in relation to your questions;
>>
>> 1 - yes - this element of the licensing works in exactly the same way; it
>> is
>> only the POS application that requires a license key.
>>
>> 2 - no - the license key is per device and is therefore fixed to the
>> first
>> 4 devices you enter the key into.
>>
>> 3 - once you have licensed the application on the device, it can access
>> as
>> many databases as required (albeit one at a time).
>>
>> 4 - there isnt much documentation flying around at the moment - just keep
>> peppering these forums with questions and I'm sure other resellers (such
>> as
>> ourselves) will respond to your query.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Andy Miller - Teknor, Inc." wrote:
>>
>>> I'm curious to how the licensing is going to be handled with Store
>>> Operations
>>> 2.0. I know it will be getting rid of the dongle and start using
>>> license
>>> keys. So how will this work? Let's pretend we have a 4 user license
>>> key:
>>> here are some questions I have...
>>>
>>> 1) If we have 4 point of sale screens open, are we still able to open
>>> the
>>> manager screens on other computers? Can we use the SO Manager on as
>>> many
>>> computers as we wish, just as we have done in the past?
>>>
>>> 2) With previous versions of RMS, we are able to open 4 point of sale
>>> screens on 4 different computers. If we want to open the POS screen on
>>> computer #5, we just needed to exit out of the POS screen from computer
>>> #2.
>>> We are able to open 4 POS screens on any 4 computers of our choice. Is
>>> this
>>> the same with Version 2.0? or do we have to specify the 4 POS computers,
>>> and
>>> thats just the way it is. POS wont be able to open on any other
>>> computers?
>>>
>>> 3) How does the Evaluation mode work? Is it the same? In previous
>>> versions,
>>> I could be connected to a LIVE database that has a dongle attached to
>>> it. If
>>> i wanted to provide support or testing, I could switch to a SAMPLE
>>> database
>>> that would run in an evaluation mode. Is this still possible?
>>>
>>> 4) Is there any documentation that I can refer to about the Store
>>> Operations
>>> 2.0 Licensing and how it works?
>
>
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