We are looking to purchase a seat or standalone license for the Arm
Development Suite (ADS) version 1.2. 
Does anyone have a license they would like to sell?
We have one customer application and can not justify ARM's Obsoletion
price

	   
					
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rsliwinski <Richard.Sliwinski@n_o_s_p_a_m.mt.com> wrote:
> We are looking to purchase a seat or standalone license for the Arm
> Development Suite (ADS) version 1.2. 
> Does anyone have a license they would like to sell?
> We have one customer application and can not justify ARM's Obsoletion
> price

ADS is licensed via FlexLM just buying the box from someone won't help
as you you would still need a license cut by ARM which matches the host
id of your machine.

-p
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Paul Gotch
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On Sep 2, 1:03=A0pm, Paul Gotch <pa...@at-cantab-dot.net> wrote:
> rsliwinski <Richard.Sliwinski@n_o_s_p_a_m.mt.com> wrote:

> > We have one customer application and can not justify ARM's Obsoletion
> > price
>
> ADS is licensed via FlexLM just buying the box from someone won't help
> as you you would still need a license cut by ARM which matches the host
> id of your machine.

There are ways (legal in some countries) to finagle that, though. The
real problem is administrative, not technical: ARM doesn't sell the
software, it sells a nontransferable license to use the software.

"rsliwinski" <Richard.Sliwinski@n_o_s_p_a_m.mt.com> wrote in message 
news:Prmdna0tdod3E-LRnZ2dnUVZ_rSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
> We are looking to purchase a seat or standalone license for the Arm
> Development Suite (ADS) version 1.2.
> Does anyone have a license they would like to sell?
> We have one customer application and can not justify ARM's Obsoletion
> price

I presume finger slipped in the spell checker?

I haven't been involved in buying one copy of the software but I can see 
that the price (last time I checked) is unjustified for (probably) the best 
compiler on the market for what is a relatively niche product.

It not really ARM's problem that you only want to use it once.  You don't 
normally expect to go into a shop and be able to say "can I buy this as a 
discount because I only want to use it once".

If you really want to do this on the cheap you should look at the GCC 
compiler, but
(a) IME you will get a significantly interior executable and
(b) I'd  wager you'll waste as much in man hours using it as you've saved on 
the cost of the ARM equivalent - it's not the most user friendly tool to 
use.  (Obviously if looking for 100 seats this overhead can be worth the 
cost, but for one, I wouldn't bother)

tim