Doug
I suppose the floppy reference is with regard to how Siemens deliver their licences for STEP7? You can now use virtually any removable media to transport these licences. It certainly used to be the case that the yellow or red (if you remember that far back) floppies were the only way to go. But now you can use USB memory sticks etc. So long as you can find at least one other PC with a floppy drive, you can tranfer your licence using network connections, USB sticks, removable hard drives. If the worst comes to the worst, you can even do a thing called an Offline Transfer where there's no connection between the PCs at all.
Ken.
PS : Anybody got any ideas how Siemens should deliver the licences? Package a cheap USB stick with every piece of software?