1 guest user = 1 user license?

[unknown-user]

Hi,

We are developing a system where 5-10 users need to update a document repository. A few hundred others will only access it as guest.

The Alfresco Professional version seems to fit our needs (clustering / high availability is not a requirement…. yet). Do we need 5-10 or a few hundred licenses in the above situation. If the latter is the case the enterprice version (2 machine, 2cpu/machine) is cheaper when the number of users above 300 or so.

Tia,

Ronald

[johnp]

At Alfresco we wanted a price that was flexible to customer situations, so we decided to offer 2 price models; Professional is designed for low numbers of users. A user is defined in the license agreement as "A "Licensed User" means a Company employee authorized by Company to use the Software per the terms of this Agreement".  For organizations where the number of users is either higher or more volatile (i.e. you don’t want to count users) then we provide the Enterprise price model based on per CPU pricing.

I hope this answers your question.

Let me know if you require any further information or assistance.

John

[unknown-user]

John,

Thanx, but this part was already clear and a (imo) nice choice. My real question is if we need several hundred licenses for all 'guest' users, or can we have one license for all. Not that It realy matters, since the price/performance of alfresco is already great and we probably do need high availability (and thus the enterprise version)

Thanks anyway,

Ronald

[johnp]

Hi Ronald,

Basically a user is an individual with access to the system so multiple people with access to the guest login is multiple users (and more user licenses). The system responds as if they are 2 different users (session management etc), which is why we see Enterprise by CPU as the popular choice.

John

[unknown-user]

Thanks, completely clear….

Ronald