[p4] Multiple clients - single user

[Greg Whitfield]

You can normally get Perforce to issue an extra license for automated
tasks like build machines, checkpoints, etc. They only charge you for
real people.

Contact Perforce support and they'll sort the details for you. 

Greg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Didster [mailto:didster at gmail.com] 
Sent: 15 June 2007 11:56
To: Greg Whitfield
Cc: Robert Cowham; paul goffin; perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] Multiple clients - single user

Hi Greg,

Yes, I agree with that too - I also have multiple clients on a single
machine for different build situations - and as you say, would be a bit
niffed if you got charged for an extra licence just for that.

> I would also end up getting charged every time I added a new build 
> machine to my network.

So do your build machines share a single user, i.e. yours?  Is that kind
of setup acceptable in that it's still you using perforce, just from a
different machine?

Thanks

On 6/15/07, Greg Whitfield <Greg.Whitfield at lightworkdesign.com> wrote:
> I'm sure nobody was accusing you of piracy.
>
> But on per-user vs per-client, I think making per "real person" is 
> absolutely the right model for licenses.
>
> If I want to create a new client space to handle different development

> branch, or perhaps documentation or management information, I would 
> not want to be charged for that. Or have my workflow interrupted by 
> having to go through the purchasing cycle.
>

>
> Clients are about being able to organise your data in a way that suits

> your own working practices. If Perforce put up a cost barrier to 
> prevent you organising things that streamline your own activities I 
> think it would lose a great deal of its power and flexibility. I 
> probably would not have recommended purchasing it either.
>
> Just my 10c worth.
>
> Greg
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Didster [mailto:didster at gmail.com]
> Sent: 15 June 2007 11:11
> To: Greg Whitfield
> Cc: Robert Cowham; paul goffin; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Multiple clients - single user
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Thanks very much for all your responses.
>
> Just to be clear, my query was out of curiosity more than anything - 
> we have already purchased a licence for 9 users which covers our 
> current 4 perm staff + any temps + a bit of expansion.
>
> At our company, we have been forced to use a product called Accurev 
> for the last 3 years for source control [it's truly dreadful] and the 
> cost of 9 user licences for perforce was worth every penny.
>
> But...  Not every "company" in the world takes software theft 
> seriously
> - and it just seemed to me that it's a strange decision to make the 
> license based on per-user rather than per-client when sharing a user 
> technically is possible and presents no problems from a functional 
> point of view - hence my question.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 6/15/07, Greg Whitfield <Greg.Whitfield at lightworkdesign.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >I loved the story of a vendor whose product was secured by a dongle
> > read at
> > >start up. After a support conversation they realised that a certain
> > customer
> > >was using the same license multiple times. It eventually turned out
> > that one
> > >chap at the customer had the job of cycling round between branch
> > offices with
> > >said dongle every morning, getting the software running on various
> > machines!
> >
> > Can't have been my software then - many moons ago when I wrote the 
> > dongle checker for a program, it kept checking at random intervals, 
> > and would not allow things like file-save's without a dongle.
> >
> > Still, a job title of "Dongle Cycler" has a certain ring to it :)
> >
> >
> >
>
>