clindsay

We have a completely virtualized front end web environment and updating our application entails updating one server and cloning that one server multiple times to create our web farm. We have completely automated process with the exception of having to re-install ChartFX on every web server every time we update the online product, which is can sometimes be several times a week. I can't tell you how frustrating it is that you have this arcane protection scheme in your product. This forces me to track individual licenses and repeat activations and even worse because of the unreliability of an uninstall/reinstall it forces us to have to test each server after each reinstall to verify the product works. When multiplied by the number of front end servers production server not to mention the dev/test systems this is an enormous amount of time wasted and a huge roadblock. With virtualization becoming mainstream and clearly the future, I am hoping SoftwareFX sees the light and sheds this ridiculous paranoid licensing scheme. If people wanted to steal your product, they would find a way, all this does is make it inconvenient for those of us who legitimately have to deal with it daily.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

We have a completely virtualized front end web environment and updating our application entails updating one server and cloning that one server multiple times to create our web farm. We have completely automated process with the exception of having to re-install ChartFX on every web server every time we update the online product, which is can sometimes be several times a week. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I can't tell you how frustrating it is that you have this arcane protection scheme in your product. This forces me to track individual licenses and repeat activations and even worse because of the unreliability of an uninstall/reinstall it forces us to have to test each server after each reinstall to verify the product works. When multiplied by the number of front end servers production server not to mention the dev/test systems this is an enormous amount of time wasted and a huge roadblock. With virtualization becoming mainstream and clearly the future, I am hoping SoftwareFX sees the light and sheds this ridiculous paranoid licensing scheme. If people wanted to steal your product, they would find a way, all this does is make it inconvenient for those of us who legitimately have to deal with it daily.