NetLicensing Journal

At NetLicensing, our promise to you is to make licensing management painless for software vendors. To that end, we are extremely happy to announce that NetLicensing 2.3.3 is now Generally Available!

Information Technology is constantly evolving and changing. It is estimated that every 18 months computing power doubles. Where IT used to be a company asset, it is now the backbone upon which the majority of businesses conduct their operations. As a result, the number of the devices, their locations, and their uses within a company is constantly changing. All of this technology from servers to clients and mobile devices have one thing in common. They will run software that requires licensing.

If software licensing is to be competitive then it needs to be both affordable and flexible. This can be increasing difficult for software vendors to achieve as it usually means reducing the price, or enabling the user to do more with the license for the same cost. The issue here is that there is only a certain amount of flexibility and price fluctuation that can be built into a licensing model whilst still remaining profitable. The other major issue with complex and flexible licensing models is that they are harder to sell than traditional licensing models - because they are harder to explain and take up more of both the sellers and customers time, which in turn reduces productivity and profit.

All IT Professionals have their own software preferences for email, antivirus, operating system and office suites and they will always tell you why their choice is the right one. Whilst all options have different pros and cons you may from time to time want to change the software used often when there is a change of management and this can be a costly exercise, both in the time taken to migrate to the new software as well the cost of licensing.

It would not be an understatement to say that cloud computing has revolutionized and democratized the technology industry. It has enabled companies to vastly expand their field of operations with almost no upfront cost. Companies comprised of just a few individuals can now easily operate on a truly global scale like never before.

We are extremely happy to announce that NetLicensing 2.3.1 is now Generally Available! In this maintenance release, we focused on fixing a few specific and annoying bugs and improvements reported by NetLicensing users.