L I C E N S I N G
Assigning Licenses to a new Client –
The What, The Why, and The How
The What?
CodeMeter License Central has a fiendishly
difficult task: To deliver the complexities of
license generation and lifecycle management
in as simple a form as possible. Other software
products purport to do so similarly, but what
sets CodeMeter License Central apart is its
sheer flexibility.
One of the more recent additions to CodeMeter
License Central’s growing arsenal of capabilities
is license rebooking, a feature introduced
in v3.20. As asset costs continue to rise
inexorably, license rebooking is becoming
an increasingly important topic for ISVs and
end users alike, since it provides a means of
recouping some of their initial capital outlay in
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order to help reduce the costs of new projects. thousands of Euros back for it.
The Why Clearly, car resale is not just some whimsical
desire. It is a crucial part of car ownership.
Now let’s think about how this might apply
to licenses, again with a hypothetical example.
An easy way to think of license rebooking
is the everyday example of owning a car:
Let’s suppose you buy a brand-new E-Class
Mercedes with all the trimmings. It costs you
€75,000, and your plan is to run it for five
years and then buy something new. Maybe
you are happy with your current E-Class, so
you plan to buy a newer model; maybe you like
the idea of upgrading to an S-Class Mercedes;
or maybe you fancy the idea of a Tesla Model
X. The process is the same: You sell the old
car and purchase a new one. It would be utter
madness to simply throw the perfectly good
E-Class away when you could get tens of
Consider a company, Avocado Inc., that pro-
duces widgets and achieves this through
means of a rather expansive machine, the
Widget Maker Model A. This can churn out
widgets at a rate of 1,000 a week. However,
Avocado Inc. just cannot produce enough
of them to meet demand. Everybody wants
one. The problem is that the Widget Maker
contains some rather complex software that
is used to monitor the health of the machine