ThumbsPlus ... Do I Need Two Copies

[xdiii]

Recognize that the subject "Pricing" in my earlier question may have limited readership.

As a prospective T+ user, I use both a desktop and a laptop at home. Both use XP Pro and the two are not are not currently networked. The laptop does share a (wireless) router with the desktop for Web access.

From what I've seen, I think that I'd like to have T+ installed on both systems so that, when traveling, I have a stand-alone T+ capability with me.

No answer from Cerious yet so here's my question:

1. Does T+ pricing (ThumbsPlus v6 Pro Version
LPK6P at 89.95 USD) mean that I need to pay 89.95 x 2 = 179.90 USD for two copies?

2. Could I get by with one copy of ThumbsPlus v6 Standard Version LPK6S at 49.95 USD plus one copy of ThumbsPlus v6 Pro Version LPK6P at 89.95 USD for a total of 133.90 USD?

3. Can I make do with a single copy of T+?

[Roger_Cavanagh]

What do you want to use T+ on your laptop for? Any images catalogued on the laptop would need to be reprocessed on your desktop PC anyway.

I'm assuming that you would have a single "archive" database rather than discrete, unintegrated smaller DB's.

Regards,

[xdiii]

Had envisioned having all original (archival) images (from 10D, G2, and Sony TRV900) on the hard drive of the desktop, and/or multiple CD-RWs, and /or the hard drive of the laptop (temporarily.) Further, had envisioned syncronized T+ files on both. Concept is similar to having your calendar, contacts, etc. on several different physical devices (desktop, laptop, Palm Pilot, etc.) and always trying to keep them synchronized?

On the laptop, wanted to be able to sit in an easy chair and annotate the thumbnails for multiple logical views later.

Think lazy. Or, as some have suggested, crazy.

[Roger_Cavanagh]

OK, but I think you'll have to work out a method for synchronising the separate databases. I could not find any entry for this in the manual. Although, if you are familiar with MS Access, it probably wouldn't be too hard to copy keywords from one database file to another. I don't think you could add new images independently as the database keys would be different.

I've checked in my T+ help manual. It says the licence is for "one copy on a single machine".

Regards,

[Longwatcher]

Unless T+ uses a unique license, most 'standard' software licenses these days will allow for a second copy on a mobile device as long as only one person can use the same copy at a time. The principle is I transfer my sole license back and forth between machines.

I confirmed this with Adobe, before I loaded photoshop on my mobile computer. There was no issue as long as I was the only one using the software. I have asked a few other companies the same question.

If you want to get technical as long as one computer is turned off when using the second, technically the software is on only one computer at a time, since the computer technically is the CPU. The harddrives are storage devices and when turned off no data resides on the CPU.

If Cerious softwares license is worded differently then others I would be surprised. It is the backup clause which you need to read, which allows for a workstation and a mobile computer to both have a single copy of the software as long as only one is in use at a time.

Just to make sure keep checking with the software company, if nothing else as a curtosey, but I have not had one yet have a problem with my backup computer also having the same copy. The key is only I use my computers.

Just my uniformed opinion and experience asking other companies.

[huebdoo]

I cant speak for Thumbs Plus, but I know with ACDSee you can import and export database information. So you would install the software on both systems, then when you would need to update the database (exif and metadata etc...) you would just export the database as XML files to and from you computers...

Here is the link:
http://www.acdsee.com

Good Luck! I honestly dont think that you will need two perchase two versions of the software