omalley@mace.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley) (05/23/91)
In article <1991May22.231344.2567@morrow.stanford.edu> ddaniel@lindy.Stanford.EDU (D. Daniel Sternbergh) writes: > > In article <AcCeC6K00UzxI2KJsO@andrew.cmu.edu> mg2x+@andrew.cmu.edu > (Michael Andrew Gelman) writes: > > > >My boss claims that he has heard of a set of programs that work as a > >distributed software server, one that allows better control over what is > >being used at any given time than the standard file server software. > >The product is KeyServer, and it is available from Sassafras Software, >a company whose association with Dartmouth is not clear to me. The developer, Denis Devlin, works for Dartmouth in its academic computing department and also for Sassafras, if I remember correctly. >In short, the product allows the administrator to set how many copies >of an application may be run concurrently over the network. KeyServer is a "license server." That's what MacWEEK called it in the April 16 review (page 71), and it seems like a great way to describe its functionality. KeyServer has worked flawlessly in some tests here, by the way. Since the keyed applications can still be stored on each lab Mac's own hard drive, there's no degredation in performance to worry about, either. -John --- John O'Malley / Macintosh / Purdue University / (317) omalley@cc.purdue.edu / Specialist / Computing Center / 494-1787