Many people I know have a bunch of AutoCAD seats in their company and get pretty frustrated trying to keep them straight. AutoCAD has two ways to make this easier:
First is a Network License. With this you can install, say, a five user networked AutoCAD on a server and users can ‘check-out’ a copy as they need it. When they close AutoCAD the copy is returned to the server for use by someone else. Since each of these seats costs more than their stand alone counterparts, this is best only when you might have eight or nine sometimes-users. If each of your users is going to be using a license full time, then this is not for you.
Second is a Multi-Seat Single Serial Number License. This is ideal when you or your IT person is tired of keeping track of 20+ serial numbers. All your existing seats are consolidated into one copy of the AutoCAD media with one serial number. Purchasing this option costs the same as if you bought individual single station seats.
The great thing about this second option is that when you need more seats, we can just add them to your existing serial number and you will not have to wait for the new media from us or keep track of more CDs on your end. When a user installs the new seat, they will be able to tap into that pool of new
authorizations. Voila!
In other news since there are now 9, 12, 53, 100+ planets in our solar system, maybe we need a better way to manage those…
The H-Factor 
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