Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Site License -- What the heck is it?

There's been a lot of hoopala lately on site licenses. Many of us may not even know what the heck a site license is. It sounds like a driver's license for a web site.

Generally, a site license is a license to download software for multiple users at a discount. Most software manufacturers offer some form of a software license. Microsoft offers one, Adobe offers one and even Craftsman Book Company offers a site license.

The downside of a site license is that if your computer crashes you will have to look up your license to download the software again and it may be more troublesome and timestaking than just sticking in a CD-ROM with the program on it. But sometimes you can save plenty by purchasing a site license. It's worth looking into if you want to save money or if you have a group of people who want to use the same software program.

For more information check the website http://www.sitelicense.net It explains the site license in more detail.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Trust us on this one folks, get the proper licensing or you will pay dearly. An inch in time saves nine so to speak.

Anonymous said...

I guess that you can buy a backup disk for the Craftsman Site License for an extra $10. But only if you do it at the time of download. In my case, it showed up in my checkout cart as an option.