KeyServer It was in later part of 1994 when Canon Sales BC Division started to integrate KeyServer. The objectives were prevention of illegal copies and effective software investment. Ishikawa, Division Sub Manager of BC Department Sales Promotion Division. Around the same time, the issue of illegal copying was out in the public and was gaining a lot of attention.
Most companies end up over investing in their computer systems in order to increase productivity.
But a balance has to be kept between investment and the generated result. In contrast to the traditional license by the install basis, Concurrent Use License is a new scheme of software license in the network era to grant the licenses up to the number of software being run concurrently. Currently, about 300 Macintoshes are controlled by the license management. Claris Impact 2.0, Adobe PageMaker 5.0, and Adobe Persuasion 3.0. Thanks to the concurrent license to achieve effective software investment, we could setup an environment to make software available to all users.