It is been known that CC working with Eclipse require (3 times) more licenses than pure CC for the same number of users.
As it comes out (hint from Miron), this may be due to the fact that Eclipse normally does not refresh its GUI when anything happens on the FS or in its current team provider, unless explicitly required to do so (by F5). This usually causes a lot of confusion and failed operations sometimes. So the guess is that Rational integration of the CC with Eclipse forces the Eclipse refresh every so often to keep it in sync with the repository. Thus it connects to CC repository even if the user did not request to do so, and by issuing this request it uses up a license (that it otherwise would not use).
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