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Posted by Jason on February 16, 2007, 6:03 am
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Not that I have ANY thought of upgrading because of the licensing issue, but
what is the PO receiving resolution you are speaking of?
>I agree - I have had my main POS crash at very awkward times, and have
> operated off a laptop or another machine for up to 2 days while fixing the
> primary POS. I keep backup scanner, rect printer, and cardswipe on hand at
> all times, just in case. POS hardware should be easily replaceable in case
> of
> theft, break-in, robbery, etc. Ever have a customer take out your register
> screen while swinging around a 10 length of pipe to get the barcode closer
> to
> the scanner?
>
> I would much rather have a hardware dongle attached to my Server that
> allowed only a licensed number of registers to operate, rather than
> authorized specific pieces of hardware - The server is a much more
> expensive
> and reliable machine, locked up in very secure utility area, with far less
> probability of failure. I will definitely upgrade to 2.0 immediately since
> I
> need my PO recving problems resolved, but will be much more hesitant about
> recommending the system to others -
>
> "Jason" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> > in
>> >>
>> >> 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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