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FlexLM --- certainly gave me a bit of nostalgia from all the time I spent on it as a cracker few decades ago... I guess it's still found on very expensive/specialist software which hasn't become entirely service/cloud-based.


Cadence and Synopsys use it.


It's very popular in high-end Unix workstation software, e.g. CST microwave studio, Bruker's MRI and NMR software, etc


I think Autodesk still uses it. I vaguely recall running into some trouble with the FlexLM service and Autodesk Inventor when I still worked as a Windows admin/helpdesk monkey.


Yes they still do, at least for floating licenses, I'm running a FlexLM server for our lab with several Autodesk floating licenses on it. MATLAB also uses it, and so do many others scientific software packages (e.g., ANSYS).




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