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Press Release 01/16/2006

 

For Immediate Release
PRESS CONTACT: jProductivity, L.L.C.,
(212) 918-1500,
press@jproductivity.com

Protection! Licensing Framework
Protects Your Applications and Revenue

    New York, NY — (January 16th, 2006) — jProductivity, L.L.C. has released Protection! v. 2.0, a licensing framework for Java that ensures that users adhere to the terms of your applications' licensing agreements. Protection! lets you embed powerful license reading and validation code into the components and applications that you sell, preventing unlicensed use of your software.

    Protection! locks out unlicensed users, and ensures that licensed users can only access those features that they've paid for. Whether you license your software on a per seat basis or a per running copy basis, you have complete control over the number of copies that can run simultaneously. This latest release incorporates significant improvements in all major areas, including new licensing schemas, a new backend, a new Protection! Sales application designed for the companies' sales stuff, and enhanced user and developer productivity.

    Protection! Licensing Framework ensures that the license was issued for the correct product that only the licensed features are available, that the license has not expired, that the user has accepted the terms of the license agreement, and that the proper number of copies are running on the network.

    The tampering subsystem ensures that license information is present, and that the application has not been patched to circumvent the terms of your license agreement. The license file generated by Protection! is a strongly encrypted file, ensuring that no one can break the protection by simple re-generation of the license file. To achieve this goal, a non-symmetric cipher algorithm is used where keys used to encrypt and decrypt the license are different. This approach makes it impossible to restore the private key by having knowledge of the public key, and vice versa.

    It's easy to create evaluation or trial licenses. The evaluation support subsystem determines whether the software can continue to operate under the terms of your license. Whether your application is distributed on a CD or over the Internet, Protection! Licensing Framework creates trial versions that can be unlocked and turned into full versions.

    The program's easy-to-use Control Center gives you a convenient location for product management, license generation, and license maintenance. You can control an unlimited number of software products, and manage the features that are available within each version of each application, for each type of license.

    In addition to generating your product license, Protection! also creates the Java implementation files that you can simply plug into your application. The license-related Assistants and message dialogs can contain your custom wording.

    Protection! locks out the pirates. This comprehensive framework for Java solves today's complex licensing challenges. The program minimizes users' ability to make unauthorized use of your applications, and frees you to work on the core functionality that makes your applications great.

    New features in version 2.0 include complete Java 5 support; significant licensing schemas improvements including grace periods and usage-based expiration; enhanced and additional Assistants to make common licensing tasks easier; new enhanced Serial Numbers; license generation shortcuts and orders parsing; new Protection! Sales application designed for companies' sales staff; and many other application's functionality, stability and performance improvements.

    Protection! v. 2.0 has been verified for Windows 2000/2003/XP, Solaris/SPARC/x86, Linux (Red Hat/SuSE/Debian), and Mac OS X. It is based on Java, and is designed to work on any platform with support for Java 1.4 and higher.

    Protection! Standard and Professional cost $407 and $997 respectively for a single-developer license. Protection! Sales Standard and Professional cost $49 and $99 respectively for a single user license. Protection! Backend costs $1,557 per CPU. Multi-user discounts and other pricing schemas are available. You can download trial versions of Protection! and Protection! Sales from the company's web site.

For more information, contact:

jProductivity, L.L.C.
275 Madison Avenue
New York , NY 10016 USA

Phone: (212) 918-1500
Fax: (212) 918-1501
Email: press@jproductivity.com
Internet: http://www.jproductivity.com

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Evaluation Copy Available on Request

About jProductivity, L.L.C.:

jProductivity, L.L.C. develops and markets productivity tools for software developers. In addition to Protection!, the company also offers Productivity! For JBuilder, a comprehensive collection of tools for enterprise Java development; and Components!, a robust collection of sophisticated components for JFC/Swing, including a calendar and calculator.