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In article <1992Oct6.144040.5288@news.dfrf.nasa.gov> todd@fred.dfrf.nasa.gov (Todd Vernon) writes:
>I am an independent software developer, and I am readying a product
>for market.  Like many developers in my position, money is a premium... 
>
>							...has anyone had
>any experience with first release products that were initially node 
>locked and then later floating licenses were available.  Did the 
>companys provide an trade in policy, to make the deal seem a little
>sweeter to big accounts ?
>

We have a lot of experience with three major CAD vendors, including
Mentor, Cadence, and Meta Software, over several years. All have offered
100% value trade in of node locked to floating licenses, although they
always protest first that they are not in the business of taking back products.
It is not unusual to charge a nominal fee if the trade is even.

Some vendors have allowed us to purchase floating licenses before they 
were available, promising meanwhile to provide lots of node-locked 
temporary keys. This can leave a real mess if the vendor can't deliver,
and this happened where it took >2 years for a vendor to deliver a 
version with floating licenses that could pass our QA tests on items unrelated
to the license manager. In the meantime, both I and the vendor grew many gray 
hairs keeping the temporary keys from running out every few months.



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