Re: IP*Works Advice

From: Allen Drennan (adrennan_at_wiredred.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: 26 Feb 2005 22:24:32 -0800

I am very familiar with IPWorks and have used it in the past and own
it. These days we write all our own socket libraries from scratch in
Delphi because nothing on the market is good enough. However, of all
the libaries for Delphi out there, IPWorks is the cleanest and easiest
to use.

Their licensing model is tied to "machine name" in Windows on Delphi so
as long as your machine name doesnt change you can move your copy from
machine to machine. I did that with 1 hard drive that was portable
from work to home.

My biggest gripe about IPWorks is that its core model is non-blocking
and single threaded, so I wouldn't use it for scalable server sockets
but its fine for point to point stuff.

Steve McGrath wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of purchasing IP*Works but searching via google some
> people seem to be put off by the way the product is licensed. It
> appears that if you buy the non red carpet version you can only use
> it on one workstation only. I came across a posted response from
> IP*Works themselves who seemed to suggest that you can use it on more
> than one workstation and that their product activation to tie to one
> workstation only is to eliminate piracy. This sounds reasonable to
> me but I'd like to hear some real world comment regarding their
> licensing model. Do they allow you to activate on work laptop/ home
> desktop for instance or was the IP*works posting just sales talk?
> I would hate to buy the product on the understanding of being able to
> activate on both desktop and laptop only to find that you then get a
> licensing agreement quoted stating that you bought a single
> workstation licence only.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve