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We were getting ready to start installing Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 on several machines that we support here. We've been buying the licenses for a couple of weeks now and just received the installation media. When I logged on to Adobe license site to get our licenses keys there's an extensive notice about "Adobe License Manager" (ALM). Everything seems to indicate that this is a requirement now. The choices are basically that either we let Adobe monitor our license compliance, or we need to set up an ALM server to monitor it ourselves. I have several problems with this: 1. We are in the process of setting up an asset management system that will monitor our license compliance on all of the software that our unit supports. I see no need to set up a separate service just to accommodate one vendor. 2. Will we soon need to have ALM like products for each major software title we support? 3. What sort of information does this thing send out and receive? 4. Could Adobe turn off our Acobat 8 licenses when they decide not to support it any more? Could go on but I don't want to rant for too long. Am I way off base here or does this thing bother anybody else? --------------------------------- Stephen W. Asman Microcomputer Hardware & Software Coordinator Health Information Technology Room A536C East Fee Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 [log in to unmask] (517) 355-6531