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Alan Ennis (61) | asked Aug 26 '10, 6:13 p.m.
We are working on planning an initial deployment of RTC 2.x as a Pilot to gain experience on small number of Projects initially. We plan to deploy Standard Server and are in discussions to decide how many floating licenses to purchase. It would help if you could share how you decided the types and number of licenses to obtain for your deployment. What ratio of users to licenses did you use?

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Anthony Kesterton (7.5k7180136) | answered Aug 27 '10, 11:04 a.m.
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We are working on planning an initial deployment of RTC 2.x as a Pilot to gain experience on small number of Projects initially. We plan to deploy Standard Server and are in discussions to decide how many floating licenses to purchase. It would help if you could share how you decided the types and number of licenses to obtain for your deployment. What ratio of users to licenses did you use?


Here is the kind of metrics I generally consider.

Developers tend to use the software all the time (they would live in the IDE) - so I would either buy authorized users for them, or pretty much 1-1 floating (which costs more).

People doing project planning and work items creation/etc - can work with a Contributor license. This is where floating users would be more useful - just remember there is currently a 2 hour timeout on floating licenses. Perhaps try a 1 license per 2 PM's, and then say a 1:5 ratio for other users.

You don't need a licenses for people just browsing - who don't plan to edit anything in the code/workitem/plan/build.

That should give you a starting point.

You might want to use the initial 10 user licenses you get with the server, and the unlimited 30 (or is it 60) day license and watch the license stats from the admin web UI, and then decide how many user licenses you really need.

As always - this is an initial guesstimate - your usage may vary.

regards
anthony

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