where you were denied a license if the license scheme detected that this would exceed your license count. Anything incorrect with what I've stated so far?ĭo folks have a major objection to concept of cloud based or internet based licenses in general? Especially if they cloud licensing were to behave more like the older licensing scheme. If you forget to pay your yearly (or monthly?) licensing fee then you can be immediately locked out of the program.įrom what I understand, the big complaints seems to be focused on the way the billing is handled or the way the usage is calculated.
This effectively requires that you have an internet connection to check out a license.īy subscription I mean that the license is not owned by your company, but merely leased on a yearly or monthly basis. My understanding is that the current licensing for RAM/STAAD is an internet / cloud based subscription license.īy Internet / Cloud based meaning that the server which controls whether or not you're allowed to use the program is not local to your office or your network. Rather it is to make sure that we (RISA) don't end up making similar mistakes as we look into alternative licensing models.Īnyone please feel free to correct me if I get anything wrong. The point really is NOT to encourage a public rant against Bentley. But, I decided that might be considered poor form.
I thought about publishing this in the Bentley forum or the general structure topics forum. But, I think there may be a couple of other more subtle points that have gotten lost in the If possible, I want to better understand the issues that are making some users so upset with this competitor. I read another thread recently where some folks went on a rant or two about Bentley's current licensing.
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