Donglify

Being a small (yet fast-growing) architect firm, at the moment, we can’t afford a second license for that fancy CAD software we use. It’s one of those pricey software products that wouldn’t start without a dongle key, and we’ve only got one of those with our license (Sentinel HL with no backup copies, sadly). So, since we’ve opened a new office halfway across the city, someone had to go on that “dongle-delivery mission” every single morning. Mind you, that two-hour drive through the morning rush-hour downtown traffic is nothing like a walk through a rose-garden.

There had to be a way to avoid that dongle-trouble, so I googled a lot (with very little success). At some point, I even considered reaching out to one of those dongle-copying websites but quickly decided against that dumb idea. Those sites looked kind of shady, you know. The last thing we need is losing our software license, or having it pirated and then released to every torrent tracker on the net.

Finally, I bumped into a way to get us out of this dongle-related nuisance. Using Donglify we were able to share our dongle key over the Internet so people from the other office can just access it remotely. No more morning downtime for them — better business for us all.