What is the difference between per seat and concurrent licensing?
Per seat licensing means for each desktop PC system that executes the software program, there is one unit of software licensed. Concurrent licensing means multiple users can use the same software license as long as they are not all using the same license at the same time. In some cases, depending on host access user habits, there is no difference between per seat and concurrent licensing. For example, if you license software for 100 users, and each user works from 8:00am to 5:00pm and each user logs onto the host and stays logged on the entire work day, there is no difference between per seat and concurrent licensing in this case. Either way, you would need 100 licenses. However, if your users sporadically access the host system, perhaps one or two hours a day at different times of the day, you may get 2:1, 3:1 or even a 10:1 ratio of users to software licenses needed. The price for concurrent use licensing for PASSPORT Web to Host® is two times the price of per seat licensing. The ser
