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Subject: Re: Serious Question if You Have Experience with MatLab License 
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In article <8a19047b-63cd-4d21-8b89-87eba94e9007@a70g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
junoexpress  <MTBrenneman@gmail.com> wrote:

>> In the time frame I was doing that work, Mathworks also changed the
>> licensing scheme, deprecating node-locked licenses in favour of group
>> licenses.

>Please excuse my ignorance here, but what is the difference between a
>node-locked and a group license? My understanding was that a node-
>locked license was for a single machine, but when I researched the
>MatLab licensing online, I came across a MatLab group license with the
>words "single computer" written under it, so I'm a bit confused.

The licenses we mostly had were for any number of simultaneous users
on a single server; the group licenses Mathworks was pushing us to convert
to were concurrent floating "named user" network licenses. There were some
regulars who used Matlab whom we could "name", but we also had enough
people who used Matlab only on rare occassions that we had to maintain
some of the unlimited-user nodelocked licenses at much higher expense
per use. (And of course since we could never predict who those people
would be, none of the groups wanted to pay for those licenses out of
their budgets... but if those occasional users couldn't get access
when they needed it, guess which group would face the criticism...)

Even now, a few of years later, there is still an amazing amount
of politics about the Matlab licenses here. Negotiating all the
budget approvals is a problem for the IT people, particularily with
new financial accountability laws that require original signatures for
values that large (email okays had been enough previously.)
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