The internal design of RLM supports transparent and automatic connection and reconnection to multiple license servers and multiple license pools. This addresses an important end user requirement of creating user-specific "virtual license pools" to:

• share licenses across groups, projects or departments

• handle a temporary server outage

• provide for periods of peak overflow usage

• queue for licenses across the enterprise

• balance the licensing workload across multiple servers

• maximize utilization rates of full license inventory

RLM is based on a superior design that overcomes some serious limitations of older licensing systems. A leading legacy licensing system vendor warns users in its own documentation that once a license is successfully checked out from a server, all subsequent license requests from that application must be satisfied from that server. This vendor is essentially telling its users that its system ignores some servers entirely by internally "locking-on to" a single server once it has satisfied a request. Why is this bad? Because it means that unless a software developer makes the extra effort to write and integrate special software into his application that overcomes this limitation, applications may incorrectly report that no licenses are available when, in fact, they are available - just on a different server. From a practical standpoint, this means that your valuable licenses remain idle when your users need to use them, not exactly the behavior that your customers are paying for. Furthermore, if your application needs a license for feature A and another license for feature B, then your application will succeed only when both licenses are available on the same server. Most importantly, users will be unable to predict which applications will behave this way and which ones won't, leaving the whole issue clouded in a mystery.

What's special for ISVs who use RLM is that they overcome this limitation automatically - without writing any extra code.  End users will love you. Older license managers required hundreds of lines of complex code to allow an application to check out a license from more than one server.

Feel free to contact us via info@reprisesoftware.com should you wish to discuss the ways in which RLM could help you bring your products to market without writing extra code by using RLM's virtual license pools.