Solution References
Lotus 1-2-3 International
In
1990 we were hired by Lotus to protect their entire range of
diskette-based products, in areas of the world where piracy was considered
a serious problem. Cop's Copylock for DOS was used with only minor modifications
and development was done for OS/2 and later on for Windows. Further
development were done to allow protected diskettes to be produced on Trace
Mountain UNIX-based machinery. For more than 3 years the cooperation was kept
until Lotus decided to compete with Microsoft in releasing unprotected products
altogether
Microsoft Windows 3.1 Microsoft Middle East
Group in Seattle contacted us, and modifications were agreed to in our WinCops
product. The release of Windows 3.1 in Arabic was then done with this special
version, that limited the number of installations possible for each
diskette. Microsoft has later on
used CD-Cops to protect the dealer version of MS office 97. Link was chosen to
develop a licensing system for their network in Shell's headquarter in
Amsterdam, Holland. The network consisted of 1200 PC's and 5 servers.
The licensing system made it possible to register the number of
simultaneous users of each individual piece of software. The succesfull outcome
of this project reduced their license payment to the
software manufacturers quite a bit. IBM IBM Denmark hired us
to develop the security in a new CD-ROM distribution system. The system
allowed several software packages to be on the same CD, unlocked by a code.
Once unlocked, the applications would install and run normally. The software
could be any standard software package. Other consultancy projects for this
company were a compression utility and a data collection system. IBM Boca Raton
recommended us to Platinum, USA and we concluded a development contract that gave
Platinum a safe distribution on network platforms. We have only mentioned
a few large and well known companies here. Many other solutions have been
created - on time, functional and, if needed, with support and modifications
done later on.
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