Concurrent Licensing EOL?

Question

Hope this is the right place for this post. I am wondering if anyone has heard any rumors or has information about ESRI moving away from a concurrent licensing model to strictly a named user licensing model. This has has happened to another company and since it seems to be the way things are going in software, I just dont want to be blindsided in the future.

Gibbs78 · Answer

Difficult yes. But it doesnt mean it cant\wont be done. Not sure if you use AutoDesk products but they went this direction starting last year. Still a few years off but with desktop going EOL and a bigger push to Pro and AGOL, you have to start planning ahead.

George Thompson · Answer

As Dan mentioned, you may want to check out the UC Q&A: https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/uc/faqs/q-a#id=5197

https://www.esri.com/en-us/about/events/uc/faqs/q-a#id=5030

JayantaPoddar · Answer

It's difficult to completely go away with Concurrent-Use licensing, especially for customers managing licenses through a network without internet connectivity. Handling perpetual licenses (No Timeout) will be another challenge.

If this happens, there will definitely be a viable workaround before the migration happens.

No official announcement yet.