How will industrial licensing evolve as more value moves from hardware into software?
Dieter Hess, CEO of CODESYS, and Stefan Bamberg, Director Sales and Key Account Management at Wibu-Systems, discuss the changing economics and architecture of industrial automation.
The conversation explores software monetization, hardware independence, perpetual and feature-on-demand licensing, usage-based models, subscriptions, cloud and network licensing, air-gapped production environments, and the rise of virtual PLCs.
As control technology becomes increasingly software-defined and multiple virtual controllers can run on shared infrastructure, licensing takes on a new role: managing not only how software is sold, but also how virtual industrial resources are deployed, counted, and monetized.
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