Flexnet
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Flexnet was Macrovision's flagship software protection system, successor of the Safecast protection system. Combining the strength of Safecast and Flexlm, featuring product activation and executable wrapping, supporting floating and node locked licensing models.
The business unit was acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo in April, 2008 for about $200 million, and subsequently promoted under the newly formed independent company Acresso Software.
[edit] Related products
- The original FLEXlm development team moved on to develop the Reprise License Manager (RLM) at Reprise Software in 2006.
- X-Formation License Statistics allows end-users to better understand their FLEXlm/FLEXnet, IBM LUM and Sentinel RMS license usage by making graphs, HTML and usage reports.
- JTB FlexReport is an application from JTB World that creates HTML, graphic and database reports on the license usage of applications that uses FLEXnet/FLEXlm.
- Open iT is a usage metering and reporting solution developed to equip advanced users and complex organizations with the most flexible and powerful reporting tools available for FLEXnet/FLEXlm, IBM/LUM, Sentinel/Abaqus/Elan, RLM and other license managers. Benefits include true global concurrency reporting, allocation of cost/pay-per-use and the ability to distinguish between active or inactive usage of software, and if applicable, automatically free up unused licenses. In addition, other modules allow tracking of node-locked, dongle-based or even web based applications for a unified view of the global usage of software resources.
- OpenLM OpenLM is a Floating License Manager optimizer. The system's main goal is to keep the idle time of the software to a minimum. OpenLM is constantly monitoring the license server and the activity of each individual workstation. It has a built-in ability to release inactive users while saving open projects or edits to prevent possible damage or loss of data.
