InfoWorld GripeLine by Ed Foster | InfoWorld | The Adobe License Manager and Acrobat | September 25, 2006 12:26 AM | By Ed Foster: "September 25, 2006
The Adobe License Manager and Acrobat
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Up until now, corporate customers have generally been spared having to deal with product activation and other anti-piracy technology in the software products they buy in volume. With Acrobat 8, however, Adobe is rather quietly and somewhat tentatively introducing an embedded license control technology called the Adobe License Manager.
For reasons I'm not entirely clear on myself, I seem to be the first trade press person in a position to report on the Adobe License Manager (ALM). It's not that Adobe's been keeping it a secret that it planned to introduce an asset management tool that would track Adobe volume licenses for anti-piracy purposes. For months Adobe has been openly discussing it with some customers and analysts in various venues. There is now a FAQ page on ALM on Adobe's website, and the company is beginning a customer education campaign about it this week. Which makes it all the stranger that Adobe's press materials last week announcing Acrobat 8 were silent on the subject of ALM, considering that it seems like something corporate customers interested in the new Acrobat will want to know.
Perhaps that's where the tentativeness I referred to comes in. Prior to the Acrobat announcement, Adobe made the decision that for the first year of version 8 volume license customers will be able to 'opt out' from using ALM. At deployment time - after the volume agreement has been negotiated and approved, in other words - the customer will have the option until Fall of 2007 to deploy Acrobat 8 software that does not have ALM embedded.
The Adobe License Manager and Acrobat
Filed under: None
Up until now, corporate customers have generally been spared having to deal with product activation and other anti-piracy technology in the software products they buy in volume. With Acrobat 8, however, Adobe is rather quietly and somewhat tentatively introducing an embedded license control technology called the Adobe License Manager.
For reasons I'm not entirely clear on myself, I seem to be the first trade press person in a position to report on the Adobe License Manager (ALM). It's not that Adobe's been keeping it a secret that it planned to introduce an asset management tool that would track Adobe volume licenses for anti-piracy purposes. For months Adobe has been openly discussing it with some customers and analysts in various venues. There is now a FAQ page on ALM on Adobe's website, and the company is beginning a customer education campaign about it this week. Which makes it all the stranger that Adobe's press materials last week announcing Acrobat 8 were silent on the subject of ALM, considering that it seems like something corporate customers interested in the new Acrobat will want to know.
Perhaps that's where the tentativeness I referred to comes in. Prior to the Acrobat announcement, Adobe made the decision that for the first year of version 8 volume license customers will be able to 'opt out' from using ALM. At deployment time - after the volume agreement has been negotiated and approved, in other words - the customer will have the option until Fall of 2007 to deploy Acrobat 8 software that does not have ALM embedded.
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