Here is a good and simple question;

Let's say company ABC purchasing one DataEase 8.5 license for their one computer running version 7.2.
Now that computer is used by 3 users, during their 3 shifts......
9am to 5pm - used by Lucy
5pm to 1am - used by Mark
1am to 9am - used by John
Just made up names :-)
Question is, with the new 8.5 licensing terms, can ABC company use DataEase 8.5 with their one license ?
OR do they need to purchase 3 licenses?

Regards
Arul

This is very straight forward:
1. If they all log in with the same username then they can all use the same license.
2. If they log in with different usernames then they need a license each.

Ideally they need different user names to track what is happening in the database.
Who is doing what in data-entry....etc.

I guess that it strictly speaking is not our job to help you evade buying the correct number of licensing but if the only reason is that they need to identify themselves inside DataEase there is plenty of ways to do that...The simplest being to use different usernames in the app.

So you use CURRENT USER NAME instead of CURRENT COMPUTERNAME.

The license is not about the DE User but the Windows User.

If this is a big job because you have used CURRENT COMPUTERNAME everywhere than the "fix" might be to simply start them with bat files ex.
Janet.bat
SET DENAME=JANET
DataEase my app etc.

Benny.bat
SET DENAME=BENNY
DataEase my app etc.

CURRENT COMPUTERNAME in DataEase is actually DENAME so if you set DENAME this is what the CURRENT COMPUTERNAME will return.