Banyan Systems and LANShark Systems announce StreetLegal for StreetTalk networks.CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 19, 1996--Banyan Systems Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BNYN BNYN ePresence (stock symbol; formerly known as Banyan) ) today announced that it would license on an exclusive basis LANShark software's newly developed StreetLegal software metering Limiting the number of users running an application from a centralized source (server) based on the current license agreement. and licensing product. The StreetLegal service is a server based Refers to hardware or software that runs in the server. Contrast with client based. networking tool to help corporate customers stay in compliance with software license agreements. StreetLegal leverages Banyan's StreetTalk directory service to make administration of software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. simple. "Our customers want to be in compliance with all of their software license agreements, but until now there were only limited integrated ways to automatically track this usage. Our partnership with LANShark Systems will allow us to deliver a fully StreetTalk integrated licensing service that completely automates this daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin task," said Mike Wixon, director of product management at Banyan banyan (băn`yən), species of fig (Ficus bengalensis) of the family Moraceae (mulberry family), native to India, where it is venerated. Its seeds usually germinate in the branches of some tree where they have been dropped by birds. Systems. The StreetLegal product allows network administrators to implement both monitoring and control of users' software utilization. Monitoring produces reports to network administrators that detail software usage on a per user basis, allowing administrators to passively monitor software utilization. Control produces the same type of auditing information but adds the ability to closely manage a "bank" of software license agreements. The control feature allows users to check-in and check-out licenses for software products. This is particularly useful for users that are licensing software on a "concurrent use" basis, allowing users to be denied access to software when the quantity of purchased licenses is exhausted. "LANShark is pleased to be working with Banyan as a strategic partner to be delivering critical capabilities such as licensing services to Banyan's customers. The StreetLegal implementation takes full advantage of StreetTalk's ease of use and management features and is fully integrated with the VINES Server and Vines IP protocol. StreetLegal delivers the highest level of licensing functionality to Banyan customers," said Scott Sharkey, president of LANShark Systems. The StreetLegal product will be shipped with all copies of VINES and enabled to monitor all Banyan software at no charge to ensure compliance with Banyan license agreements. Customers that would then like to use this same StreetLegal service to monitor and control licensees from other software vendors can upgrade the service by paying a per user license fee to Banyan. StreetLegal is expected to ship from Banyan in June and will initially support Windows and Windows 95 clients. The list price for StreetLegal will be $10 per supported workstation. CONTACT: Banyan Systems Inc. Anne Reilly, 508/898-1000 or LNS LNS L2TP Network Server (terminates L2TP tunnels & provides PPP and network termination) LNS Laboratory for Neutron Scattering LNS Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (Italy) LNS Logarithmic Number System Communications Siobhan Carroll, 617/577-9777 |
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