Cadent monitorLite Released!
As the Events and News sidebar indicates, this is a significant time for myself and Cadent. It represents a transition from pure contracting to a more product-based focus mixed with professional consulting and training services. I have even changed the company's name from Cadent Computer Consulting Inc. to Cadent Computing Inc. to better reflect this change. This will surely be an interesting, if not exciting, time!
Cadent monitorLite is a system utility for monitoring the processes/applications on your system. It is very much like Apple's Activity Monitor except rather than showing information in a list, the processes are represented in a hierarchical graph. Those experienced in software development know that this is really how processes run and is a more natural way to view what is going on inside of your machine.
I have developed this utility on the Mac to run universal for 10.4 and 10.5. I like using a Mac (even though throughout my consulting career, no one would "allow" me to bring a Mac to their site). I have always used a Mac to do my cross development embedded work and feel it has given me a headache-free workflow. That being said, I appreciate the Mac market is small for a utility like monitorLite and expect I will be converting it to Linux and perhaps Windows later this year.
With regards to the license, I would like to highlight some important points:
- You can install monitorLite on as many machines as you own as long as you are only running it on one machine at any given time.
- The above point does not apply to businesses: you need to purchase a license per unique user.
- Once you buy a license to Cadent monitorLite you won't have to buy an upgrade. Whether it is going to 1.1 or 2.0, your license will be good. I may increase the price if more features are added to 2.0, and new buyers will need to pay the higher price, but an existing owner will not have to pay for the upgrade.
- New utilities based on the monitorLite platform may be developed but those will be under a different name and will be a completely new product from a licensing perspective. However, you can purchase a license to these new utilities by only paying the difference between what you paid for monitorLite and the new utility.