David,
 
VERY few programmers could do anything with the TAS executable which is where the license is ultimately controlled from.  The progrmmer that wrote TAS writes in assembler language!  Yeah, 010111001.  He is pretty much a mad genius.
 
So hacking his stuff is REALLY bloody difficult.

Great idea - does anyone have his direct email address?

They sent us one.   We have not needed to post the license data for two years now.
 
Jeanette Zimmerman
Lowery & Company Inc.

They sent us one.   We have not needed to post the license data for two years now.
 
Jeanette Zimmerman
Lowery & Company Inc.

I suspect Jeanette requested it.  Can't hurt to try.

Some how I think that they should be able to, if nothing else, issue you 10 years worth of license keys at one time.  
 
This strikes me as a "I don't know how to do it, so the customer must be inconvenienced" issue.
 
There is a creative solution to this somewhere looking for someone willing to look outside the box.
 
Jeanette Zimmerman
Lowery & Company Inc.
 

Looks like there's been an impact. "By popular demand" I got a license today that's good until 2030.
 
Way to go people!!!  

Mine came from Jennifer Schram <jschram@dbasoftware.com>

Hmmm, I wonder what fredh's company name is.  We have not received a lifetime license and our company name is Bula Forge.  Shouldn't be too far down the list.

I got one good thru 2030, (which is just about when I should retire, so that's cool) but upon installation I got the 'License Expired' message.  So I reinstalled our current license.
 
Haven't had an answer back from DBA yet.  Has anyone installed it sucessfully?

I just copied the 2 files she emailed to me to my DBAMFG folder and it worked. Exp Date: 12/31/30.
 
By the way - we are Melrath Gasket Inc. - sorry Karen.  

That's interesting. Mine came without instructions so I just copied the old files out, the new files in, and - Voila!

Sent email to jschram at DBA.  This is what I received back:
 
We will be sending these out to all our customers over the next few weeks.
 
Thank you,
Jennifer
----- Original Message -----  
From: Karen Mason  
To: jschram@dbasoftware.com  
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:13 PM
Subject: Lifetime License
 
 
I would like to obtain a lifetime license (8 seats) for our DBA product that does not need to be renewed each year.  Can you please forward this to me.
 
Many thanks,
 
Karen Mason
Bula Forge & Machine, Inc.
kmason@bulaforge.com

I got new files from DBA today and they work.  They have my compliments for distributing these licenses.

Hi,
 
Just a question i.e are all the people receiving the update files signed up for life time license or is DBA s/w sending out the file to all the users?
 
Samir

It is my understanding they are only sending them out to lifetime license customers.  Annual License customers still need to pay their annual fee to get the updated license file each year.  Which certainly makes sense.  Kinda defeats the purpose if they send a file good for 30 years to the annual license customers.  

Vicki -
 
There are several posts along this same line in different areas of the forum.  The bottom line is that DBA Software (as a company) is no longer providing anything beyond essential bug fixes to the current platform.  They are devoting their programming resources to their new EziJobs version which may have a lot of good features but is nonetheless a new program with the associated learning curve and potential bugs.  As a lifetime license user, you can get the EziJobs update for free but you will pay the price in training employees in a completely new software, the potential problems transferring data from the current DBA (they have promised a program to transfer data but there has been some discussion whether all historical transaction data will transfer over - yet to be determined...) and if you jump in early, the inevitable bugs inherent in a new software product.
 
IS Tech Support was established in January of 2003 as an alternative for existing DBA customers who prefer to stay with the existing platform and build on it.  We offer program updates and enhancements for a modest charge of $35/month as well as this free user forum and support plans offering unlimited email and phone support for additional charges.  See www.istechsupport.com/guest-plans.asp for additional details.

Laura,
 
As I understand it from Mike, you have essentially forever to make the decision to switch to Ezijobz at no additional cost.
 
As to whether DBA TAS 5.1 version will continue to run?  Well, as Microsoft moves fully into a .NET environment (probably about 2006-2007) you can be almost guaranteed that the current DBA will not run entirely successfully.  Just the way the software world works.