1. Convenience: Each site license offers easy installation, license management, and control of license use throughout the school.

2. Unable to connect to the site license master server .

3. Businesses and other institutions have to pay a fee for a site license.

4. Re-striping sleek new PCs with the old operating system is simply going to make less and less sense, even if the IT department has a perfectly good site license.

5. Unfortunately I was using a commercial programming language ( IDL, as it happens) for which I need to use my university's site license.

6. As I didn't have access to the internet, I couldn't get hold of the site license, so couldn't run the compiler and IDE.

7. With olap4j, you can switch to a different server if it is better, cheaper, faster, or simply because that is the server for which a particular customer already has a site license.