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For Immediate Release
Thirty Ten Communications, LLC for
Black Ice Software, LLC
www.BlackIce.com (web site)
603-882-7711 (phone)
Media Contact:
Melody Gause
770-736-6960 phone
Melody@ThirtyTen.com
(email)
www.ThirtyTen.com
(web site)
PRESS RELEASE
Black Ice
Software Announces a New and Cost-Effective License Model to Meet
the Printing Needs of Smaller Businesses
Nashua, NH, (September 30, 2009) --
Black Ice Software, a leading supplier of printing, imaging and
image conversion solutions, is pleased to announce a new licensing
policy for the printer driver product line. Effective today, the
company is changing from application-based licensing to user and
server-based licensing. Customers will experience a more simplified
process to obtain the software.
Customers no longer have to sign an
application license to use the printer driver applications. Now they
can get authorization to use them by going online through the Black
Ice eLicense Server at the time of purchase.
“Our new pricing structure and
simplified licensing process will better serve our current and
future customers. It will also meet the needs of new, small-volume
distributors whose current budget would not allow for
application-based licensing.” said CEO,
Jozsef Nemeth.
The new licensing policy will have no effect on existing customers with
an active maintenance plan, as long as they continue to renew it
each year. The user and server-based licensing requires businesses
to purchase a single runtime license for every user on Windows
7/Vista/XP operating systems and a server license for every Windows
server 2008, Windows server 2003, or Citrix server. Terminal server
users will not need additional user runtime licenses.
A drawback of application-based
licensing is that customers have to obtain one license per
application they are incorporating the printer drivers into. This
makes it difficult for Black Ice Software to track the customer’s
applications they are using the licenses for and control how they
distribute them. This licensing model also puts small and midsized
customers at a disadvantage because it makes no difference how many
run time licenses the application requires. An application may need
10 runtime licenses or 5000 for the same licensing fee.
Original Equipment Manufacturers
(OEM’s) still have an unlimited distributed option for the
printer driver product line with a
sliding price point. Manual licensing will still be available for
some special OEM customers that have special requirements or
customizations.
About Black Ice Software
Black Ice Software,
headquartered in Amherst, NH, is a leading privately-held software
development company that was established in 1989. Black Ice Software
develops high-quality development toolkits for printer driver
technology, fax, voice, imaging development toolkits and
applications used across the globe by e-commerce organizations,
system integrators, VARS, and financial corporations. For more
information, visit the corporate website at
www.BlackIce.com
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