[p4] Multiple clients - single user

[Tetrick, Cary]

One reason that having a shared user is not a good idea is that there's
no easy way to track who made a given change. 

That may not be a big deal with only 4 people, but it might start to
matter with 9, and becomes critical with 20 or more.


-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Didster
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:11 AM
To: Greg Whitfield
Cc: paul goffin; Robert Cowham; 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 :)
>
>
>
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