Personal Edition and Floating Licenses

This release of Sun WorkShop supports a node-locked (Personal Edition) license, where the licensed software only runs on the machine (the node) to which the software is locked. The machine where the licensed software is installed is the application server, and the machine running the license daemons is the license server. With a node-locked license, the license server and the application server might be the same machine, and only one user can run the application on the machine at any one time.

With a floating license, developers can access licensed software simultaneously over the network through FLEXlm license manager software. When two or more users invoke the same software product at the same time, they are considered concurrent users. The concurrent user license model makes software available to any user on any computer on a network because licenses are floating and not tied to a specific machine. FLEXlm license manager software monitors and controls access to the software. A license can be checked out by any developer on the network and then returned for others to use. A license is checked out transparently by each user who accesses the licensed software.