As an Orion customer, when is an Acropolis subscription required (as opposed to an Orion OEM subscription)?

You would opt for an Acropolis solution instead of an Orion OEM solution if any of the following applies:

• You need to redistribute the Orion server to your end customer sites and you license your redistribued Orion servers with Orion. Your Acropolis hosting service would be used for the redistributed Orion server license protection. Note that in most real world scenarios, redistributing a license server is not necessary – a hosted Orion server can manage floating and enterprise license pools for multiple end customers over the Internet even in secure network environments.
• You do not have a data center or a capable system administration staff with available resources to operate the Orion license server.