Novell To Move License Sales Online
Novell this week will start letting IT departmentselectronically purchase, receive, and manage licenses for
its software. Through a partnership with BitSource Inc., a
provider of automated license-delivery services, Novell will
let IT departments procure licenses for NetWare,
BorderManager, GroupWise, and other software online. The
process can shorten the time needed to order licenses,
simplify license management, and potentially reduce software
costs.
The partnership will let IT departments or their resellers
place an order for a Novell product with BitSource, which
pulls the license from Novell's back-end licensing engine.
BitSource then E-mails licensing information to the IT
department, along with a URL at which details of the license
can be viewed. Information on licenses ordered from and
distributed by BitSource is stored on a customer-accessible
database.
Novell plans to distribute apps through BitSource, though
the companies wouldn't specify when this will become
available. The online license-distribution service is
available immediately at no charge to members of Novell's
Customer Connection licensing program.
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