Awright!! lots of things in the pipe for new year.
First off - i’m trying to push out XMESH [max] as a product. $495 a license, 10 pack for $2950 - floating, gets you access to X-Mesh alpha/betas for Maya, Soft. Loaders are Free.
Second - i’m testing out a new licensing tool lm-x…flexlm is TOO EXPENSIVE. seriously. way too expensive. we’ll be trying that out in FrostPy [python wrapped frost standalone, windows/linux] as well as in fathom [nodelocked] - fathom is the kinect stuff we showed at siggraph. it’s going ot be cheap and fun. i hope.
Third - shipping KrakSR in March/april. crossing fingers!. we have our first incarnation particle multiplication in there now…thought someone would be excited by that!
After that or somewhere in between - i hope to get some EARLY ADOPTERS to try Deadline 6 as soon as we can stuff that out…
future stuff - Frost Pro/2.0, and a top secret project [which shall not yet be named], and then followed by another top secret project [voxel flow] and hopefully even another top-secret-project that is just on the drawing board.
All sounds exciting!
I was going to right a thread about how reliable Flexlm is from an end user point of view and its worth every penny, but when I recently started comparing our different floating license systems…ah…over 45, spread across 4 dedicated VM servers, I realised that when I compared the actual systems ie: Flexlm against Reprise RLM against A.N.Other license software system through the eyes of our environment monitoring systems (SCOM, Zenoss, HypericHQ), there was another story to be told. Flexlm although the most popular software system we use, it wasn’t the most reliable (uptime of NT service) when you compared it unit value against unit value with the others. Even when I benchmarked against scheduled downtime of servers, server specs, license file updates, network connectivity, routing, the lot. I found out that we actually over the course of a few years, actually have to restart Flexlm services more regularly than any other 1 particular brand of license software. Now, my interrogation of my own stats, is by no means, the rule, but for me, it was an eye opener
So, although I’ve not got anything running on the “lm-x” software system. Ultimately, if its super reliable, flexible for everything both you as a developer and me as an end user need it to do. Then Game on.
