[Alexqw85]

Sadly, my experience with FLEXlm has been far from fascinating. Matlab uses it, and Matlab has some weird license types (that we use) that don't map well to FLEXlm, so they approximate it in odd ways.

I build (internal only) Debian packages for Matlab and FLEXlm, and admin the license server. I've seen far more of FLEXlm than I care to.

Mathworks made the mistake once of asking for my feedback about their product, from a sysadmin's perspective. They received about three earfuls from me, about half of which was dedicated to my disdain for FLEXlm.

FLEXlm seems simple on the surface, but has poor and outdated documentation (even once you find and read through the 300-400 page tome that's floating around) and is a pain to debug when under fire.

We have it running well enough now, but the road to get there should frankly embarrass those who ship (and/or rely on) the software today. Frustratingly, Mathworks' response to my feedback largely boiled down to "it's 3rd party software, so we can't do anything about it." As if FLEXlm were a force of nature, and there were no viable alternate models for physics. Not a good look.