Article: Mathcad for all

With concurrent licence management, it’s possible to offer far more widespread use of software through an organisation. The new LM versions of Mathcad do just that, as John-Mary Gautier-Sempala explains.

Thanks to licence-management, it's now more affordable than ever for entire departments or organisations to have access to software like Mathcad, instead of just a few specialists. Anyone working in a corporate environment with a multi-user Mathcad licence, or wanting to expand the use of Mathcad in their organisation, will be interested in the new Mathcad 2001i LM options.

The licence-managed version has been designed to meet the needs of most IT departments and makes concurrent and non-concurrent licensing of Mathcad possible.

Concurrent licences: these offer more flexibility: Mathcad may be installed on as many PCs as required on the same network, with concurrent use restricted to the licensed number. This saves your organisation money because you don’t need to licence everyone who needs use of Mathcad, however infrequently. You just need the number of licences equivalent to the number of users who will be using Mathcad at any one time.

The Licence Manager, FLEXlm, is installed on the server along with Mathcad (or onto a separate licence server). When the end-user starts up Mathcad, the software queries the Licence Manager to see if there is a licence available - in other words, it ensures that no more than the licensed number of instances of Mathcad is in use. Once the Mathcad session is over, the licence will be returned to the server and be available to another user. If the maximum number of licensed copies is already in use, a dialogue box will indicate this to the user.

Non-concurrent network licences: these offer an economical approach for organisations that expect Mathcad to be used in frequent daily sessions. In a non-concurrent licence model, licence usage is counted and is tied to particular client machine names. Non-concurrent licensing allows Mathcad to be installed on a computer network. The number of PC terminals with access to Mathcad and the network is equal to the number of seats licensed. For example, if there are a total of five Mathcad users, on a network that supports 50 employees, only those specific five machines will have access to the Mathcad application.

Licence-managed versions of the Mathcad Signal Processing, Image Processing and Wavelets Extension Packs are also available. These work in the same way as the Licence Manager for the main Mathcad program.

Does your organisation have dozens of individual Mathcad licences in various departments?
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