Tag: Software Licensing

Usage-Based Software Licensing Examples and Patterns

For the last year, I’ve been talking to a large number of software vendors and device manufacturers about pricing their products using usage-based licensing models. There seems to be an explosion of new licensing models being considered. I personally believe that this new approach will be the default pricing model within the next 5 years and therefore wanted to share some potential applications (to stir up the creative juices).  I have kept…

January 16, 2013 Flexera

An Approach for Addressing Software License Compliance in Virtual Environments

In many of my discussions with software producers relating to software licensing and machine fingerprinting, almost all are using hardware MAC address, the UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) of the motherboard and/or CPUID information. However, should software licensing be completely based off of the hardware MAC, UUID of the mother board or CPUID information? This process worked very well before the introduction of virtualization but now that …

January 9, 2013 Flexera

Can you quickly and accurately determine your installed base?

That seems like a fairly easy and obvious question. Do you know who has which of your licensed software and/or hardware products, where they are located and to what each of your customers is entitled? With many companies responding to market demands for greater license flexibility and customer self-service, maintaining accurate installed base data is becoming a huge problem that must be addressed. Accurate installed base data allows you to mainta…

January 27, 2012 Flexera

Will the Perpetual Software License Model Ever Go Away? That Depends Upon Who You Ask…

The perpetual software license model won’t seem to go away, as much as the press and various surveys seem to indicate. The perpetual license model has been the predominant method for selling the software license for most software for the past 30 years. With this approach, software is purchased with the right to use software into perpetuity. Of course, most software only has a useful lifetime of anywhere from 3 – 10 years. The software will …

December 16, 2011 Cris Wendt