RTR recently released Frontpage Extensions for Windows 2008R2 which was very exciting for us since we just started adding Windows 2008R2 Web Servers to our cluster and were unable to offer Microsoft Frontpage Extensions to our customers on those servers.

RTR offers the software for a reasonable price and obviously has many years of experience in the field.

We downloaded a trial and started reading up on the licensing of the the product.
We noticed a clause in the instructions that explained either the Windows 2008R2 Server needs to be a physical machine OR the server running the licensing software needs to be a Physical machine.
This is a big problem for us since we converted all our Windows machines into Virtual machines a while back.
So basically we had no chance giving RTR our money to buy their product.
We did notice however that the Licensing Software they are using (Reprise RLM) has the option to run on Linux. Since we still had a physical linux Server for certain tasks, we had a little hope again we could use the product.

We downloaded the Linux version of the RLM directly from the vendor installed it and the trial license.
The result:

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07/12 22:09 () *** ***
07/12 22:09 () *** This ISV server is not enabled ***
07/12 22:09 () *** to run on this platform. ***
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After talking to RTR it seems their licensing agreement with Reprise does not allow Linux as the RLM Server.
This is very unfortunate since we now need to keep the old Windows 2003 Servers around for as long as people are asking for FPSE or have to run separate Windows 2008 Servers (IIS7) which comes with free FPSE from RTR.

I really wish RTR would expand their licensing options!

UPDATE: Great news! As you can see from the comment below, RTR is now offering a hosted license!
This means RTR is running the license server for you and you just have to worry about purchasing licenses from the.