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Software License and Entitlement Management Trends


Randy Littleson, Senior Vice President, Marketing for Flexera Software, discusses how high-tech manufacturers are using software to differentiate themselves from competition and grow profitability, and how software licensing and entitlement management solutions can enable this transformation.

"FlexNet Connect solves a critical challenge for Siebel by simplifying the delivery of our software and reducing TCO costs for customers."

Skip Bacon
Vice President of Technology
Siebel Systems

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Software Pricing and Licensing Webcast and 2009 Survey


Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software sponsored 2009 Survey.

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    Learn about the key issues and trends on the minds of software vendors, high-tech manufacturers, and enterprise IT executives and managers.
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    Get real-world data on the latest pricing and licensing trends and best practices in the software industry.

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FlexNet Connect: Requirements

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On-Premise

Technical requirements for FlexNet Connect On-Premises.

Supported Browsers: Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher and Firefox 1.5 or higher

FlexNet Connect Windows Client is supported on:

  • Windows 2000, SP 4
  • Windows XP, SP2 or higher
  • Windows Vista, SP1 or higher
  • Windows 7 (32-bit)

The FlexNet Connect Java Client is supported on:

  • Tier 1 Platforms (certified on the date of General Availability (“GA date”) of each release)
    • Windows 2000 SP4 or later
    • Windows XP, SP2 or higher
    • Windows Vista, SP2 or higher
    • Windows 7 (32-bit)
    • Mac OS X or higher
    • RHEL 4 or higher
  • Tier 2 Platforms (certified 60 days after GA date of a release)
    • Sun Solaris 10 or higher
  • Tier 3 Platforms (certified 90 days after GA date of a release)
    • AIX 5.3 and higher
    • HP-UX 11i v2, v3
  • JRE versions 1.4.2 and later are supported for the Java client run time.

Publisher Management Portal (PMP) and Customer Management Portal (CMP) Requirements
 Except where exceptions are noted, the FlexNet Connect Publisher Management Portal (PMP), Customer Management Portal (CMP), and other servers share the same system requirements. Note: No other Web application can share the FlexNet Connect server machines.

Supported Operating System/Architecture for PMP/CMP servers

  • Tier 1 Platforms (certified on the date of General Availability (“GA date”) of each release)
    • Red Hat 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 32-bit
    • Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (32-bit only)
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (requires UAC disabled) 
  • Tier 2 Platforms (certified 60 days after GA date of a release)
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 32-bit
    • Sun Solaris 10
    • Sun Solaris 9 (x86 or SPARC)

Supported Databases for PMP/CMP

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008, Enterprise or Standard Edition
  • Oracle 10g and 11g, Enterprise, or Standard Edition

Apache Derby (formerly Cloudscape) will continue to be embedded in CMP/PMP. Because it is intended for embedded usage, we will no longer document Apache Derby versions being used in FlexNet Connect.

For the optional FlexNet Connect reporting database (available to self-hosted, Premier edition users only). FlexNet Connect requires Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and later.

System Requirements

CPU One or more 1GHz+ processors
RAM 512MB (1GB recommended for database servers)
Disk Space 20GB (100GB+ recommended for database servers)

On-Demand

Technical requirements for FlexNet Connect On-Demand.

Supported Browsers: Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher and Firefox 1.5 or higher

FlexNet Connect Windows Client is supported on:

  • Windows 2000, SP 4
  • Windows XP, SP2 or higher
  • Windows Vista, SP1 or higher
  • Windows 7 (32-bit)

The FlexNet Connect Java Client is supported on:

  • Tier 1 Platforms (certified on the date of General Availability (“GA date”) of each release)
    • Windows 2000 SP4 or later
    • Windows XP, SP2 or higher
    • Windows Vista, SP2 or higher
    • Windows 7 (32-bit)
    • Mac OS X or higher
    • RHEL 4 or higher
  • Tier 2 Platforms (certified 60 days after GA date of a release)
    • Sun Solaris 10 or higher
  • Tier 3 Platforms (certified 90 days after GA date of a release)
    • AIX 5.3 and higher
    • HP-UX 11i v2, v3
  • JRE versions 1.4.2 and later are supported for the Java client run time.