2.0 LICENSING

I think your right. the licensing schema i think is good, but for test purposes it isn't. I'm new in RMS, and installed version 2.0 for learning. But the POS didn't start because i don't got a license key. This is very inconvenient... so i must install an older version 1.3 for testing. And i think this isn't the best way for MS to deploy there software.

Hope MS gives response on this problem.

Looks like MS is not going to address any of our concerns. Figures they'd take the cowards way out. Craig

Let's try this. Todd Berger are you paying attention to what is being said about the licensing scheme MS has chosen for RMS. It's very unpopular and in fact will lose you a lot of users. Please report to the people that have the power that we need a way to set up POS on another Machine to be able to test receipt templates, Status.html, add-ins, and various other properties of RMS to make sure they work for our business. Please give us a evaluation period like 1.3 and before. If we restore from a backup the evaluation period should start over. This is needed badly by many people for many reasons. I pay for maintenance and this would benefit the entire community, so please respond. Nobody from MS has even made a whisper about this issue and we would all like to hear the official response. Craig

1. Receipt Templates Receipts don't always show up in POS the way they show in the preview pane in manager. In particular I've had problems with receipt width. The preview pane doesn't show any problems when you change it, but use it in POS and the receipt is all screwed up. Therefore we need to be able to try them in POS to see the final product.

2.Status.html I've never been able to view customer properties in IE the way it shows in POS, so the same goes for this one as number 1. You need to be able to view it in POS to make sure it works properly. 3.Evaluation period If I take a current backup home and restore it on my test machine I get another 60 days to try out different things and make sure I like them, and/or that they work the way I intend them to in POS. So in effect my evaluation period will never stop as long as I keep restoring from a current backup from my production machine. You can't tell me this doesn't work, I've been doing it for a year.

Seems like you struck out on this one Todd. Craig

Do you people not understand what Microsoft is thinking or doing with this new license structure. Microsoft does not care if you have a test machine. They just want you to purchase another license for that machine. The Microsoft RMS Partners have taught us, the users, that it is OK to setup another copy to use for testing or how to purchase 1 license and use it on 2 machines as long as we are not using the 2 machines at the same time. The RMS Partners have taught us that these things are OK. Microsoft has finally realized this "hole" and they have closed it with this new structure. You can complain all you want, but they are not going to change anything. They want you to have a license for every copy of RMS that you use. You can't go out and buy 1 copy of Windows and put it on 2 machines, 1 for use and 1 for testing. This is now the same with RMS no matter how unpopular it is.

Stephen

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Ok, so please explain why in the Great Plains Dynamics world, we are using Concurrent licensing. I can install on 50 machines if I want to, it's just limited to the number of concurrent licenses. I hope they don't go the named machine way with that product too! Mike

RMS is a totally different animal than Windows. I am not asking for an additional license anyway. All I want is to be able to evaluate the software before I install in a production environment. If they would give us even a

10 day evaluation period that would work for me. But that would not satisfy everyone. We should be able to open POS on any of our networked machines as long as we don't go over our license. There has to be a way MS can do that and still battle piracy. I have solved my issue by ordering a 45 day evaluation license from my VAR. Craig

They need to have concurrent licensing.

This does not take rocket science to implement. All they would have to do is create a new table in the database with 2 encrypted columns: Max POS allowed (how many copies you are authorized for) which could be set based on the license key you enter, active POS stations (as one starts, increment value by 1, ends, decrement counter). And of course a simple compare to find if you can launch another POS session.

Many software packages are sold with CONCURRENT licensing. MYOB, Quicken, etc

That is how this program USED TO BE SOLD...

Now it has changed...conveniently AFTER I sent my money for the "subscription" which I will never use.

By the time I need to change software, I will probably move to an open-source solution.

Anyone seen Sourceforge.net lately?

There's a whole lot of coding going on for ENTERPRISE class POS/CRM/ERP/accounting software.

Maybe I'll hire a open source guru and switch everything, including my server software and PC OS to open source.

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