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Are you developing an application that requires optimization and/or
simulation technology? Do you plan to deploy your application
to users within your organization, or to external customers?
Frontline's runtime licenses give you the right to embed the
Solver Platform SDK,
Premium Solver Platform, or
Risk Solver Engine and -- if
required -- one or more of our large-scale Solver Engines into your application,
and duplicate or distribute copies, or make the application
accessible to users on an Intranet or Web server, or via a Web
service. And our runtime license management options
make it easy to monitor and control use of the software, using
either Frontline-provided tools or your own tools.
A development license enables one or more
application developers, to write, test, debug, and modify an
application, using all of the facilities of the Solver Platform SDK
or the Premium Solver Platform. In contrast, a runtime
license enables one or more end users to run the finished
application that uses the Solver Platform to find solutions to
optimization or simulation problems; it cannot be used to modify,
recompile or debug the application itself. A runtime license
may be temporarily used (and re-used) for client evaluations and
sales demos, or it may be permanently deployed at client or customer
sites.
A runtime license costs less and "does
less" than a development license. Where a Solver
Platform SDK development license allows you to use any of five
bundled Solver Engines for optimization and/or simulation, an SDK runtime license allows you to use one specific Solver Engine -- such
as the LP/Quadratic Solver or the GRG Nonlinear Solver -- that is
required to solve the specific problem defined by your finished
application. Runtime license prices generally start at 50% of
a development license, and are further discounted for quantity.
Runtime licenses may be purchased only after an
appropriate license agreement is signed with Frontline
Systems. We offer a standard form of license agreement, that
is sufficient for many common situations, and does not require a
license origination fee. If our standard form of agreement is
not appropriate, we'll be happy to negotiate a custom agreement with
your organization that includes a license origination fee to cover
the extra costs of negotiation.
Our program for independent software developers is
designed for the following conditions:
 | You are developing an application that will be
sold or licensed to many external customers -- other
organizations or individuals. |
| While you may have market estimates, you don't
know precisely in advance how many and what kind of
runtime licenses you'll need. |
| For purposes of warranties concerning
your own and Frontline's software, your customer is the
"end user;" they will look to you for assurance of
performance, support and the like. |
| The price of a runtime license must bear a
reasonable relationship to the price at which you are
selling or licensing your application -- and this may cover a
very wide range. |
| You want to monitor and control use of your own
software by external customers, and you probably have a
preferred license management system for this purpose. |
Our experience is that independent software
vendors often find our standard form of license agreement
acceptable, so there is often no license origination fee, or only a
minimal fee. Because of uncertainty in market demand, however,
ISVs often want to purchase only enough runtime licenses for copies
of the application they are reasonably certain to sell, and they
have a need for "reusable" runtime licenses for client
evaluations and sales demos.
To learn more about our program for independent
software developers, please click here.
Our program for corporate / in-house developers is
designed for the following conditions:
| You are developing an application for use by one
organization -- business, government, education or other. |
| Your application will be used by
employees, contractors, etc. within your organization, or by
"captive customers" such as sales reps or dealers who
regularly do business with you. |
| Your organization will determine how
many and what kind of runtime licenses are needed, and will
purchase them from a central point, in one or a few
transactions. |
| For purposes of any warranties
concerning Frontline's software, your organization is the
"end user;" it does not make its own warranties to
users of the application. |
| While you want to comply with license terms,
your concern is with enabling rather than monitoring or
controlling use of the software (license management). |
Depending on corporate policy and/or the number of
licenses and the size of the transaction, you may need to negotiate
a custom license agreement. This always involves a license
origination fee; on the other hand, you are typically able to take
advantage of quantity discounts to lower the overall costs of
runtime licenses, because you have a centralized decision process to
determine the number of licenses you want or need at a given point
in time.
To learn more about our program for corporate /
in-house developers, please click here.
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To Learn More:
For instant access to example models, full-text User Guides,
and to download free 15-day trial versions of our
software products whenever you're ready, you can register now. |
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| Our Premium Solver Platform
works with existing Excel Solver models, solves much larger problems up to hundreds of
times faster, and solves new kinds of problems via Evolutionary Solver.
Solver Engines plug into the Premium Solver Platform. |
| Solver
Platform SDK makes it easy to solve any type
or size of optimization problem in your Visual Basic,
VB.NET, C/C++, C#, Java, or MATLAB program. And
it's easy to deploy your application with our flexible
licensing for software vendors and corporate
developers. |
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