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ALPHA SOFTWARE EXPRESS, LLC  ANNOUNCES A SIMPLE TOOL DESIGNED TO PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPER WITH AN EASY, INEXPENSIVE METHOD TO LICENSE THEIR SOFTWARE.

SAN RAFAEL, CA -- Mar. 8, 2002 --
Alpha Software Express, a supplier of Java based software today announced a product designed to help software developers license their products and secure their rights to their distributed code.

The Alpha Express License Manager (AELM) is a simple Java application, designed to provide the Java developer with an inexpensive method to license software. It consists of a LicenseMe class, which can operate in batch or as a GUI, depending upon the arguments provided at startup. The user can create a temporary, or permanent, license key file for a specific product, customer and application version. License verification is accomplished by telling the license facility to verify a specified key file. If the key file is a valid license the authorized product, user and issued version are made available to the calling application.

                                    FREE version available !

AELM can, itself, be licensed or unlicensed. The unlicensed version is free to developers, with the caveat that licenses created by it are not guaranteed to be unique. That is, other AELM users could also generate valid licenses for your product, because  the product name portion of the license is not encrypted. With the licensed version of License Manager, all parts of the generated licenses are encrypted by a unique seed key which cannot be guessed by others, so licenses created by it are always reliable. 

Visit: www.alphase.com.

CONTACT:
Alpha Software Express
415-457-8532
lic@alphase.com