Re: Getting Screwed by Informix!?

In <3oefh7$287@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> inf_bb@hermes1.sps.mot.com (Bob Baskett) writes: > >please define 'USER' in user pricing. is it based upon the uid for the login >or is based on the tty or someother way? if it is based upon the uid, then >great, im buying a single user lic. and sharing the same login (just kidding). >if its based upon tty/dev, then our developers are hosed since we tend to >have mult windows open while working.... > I would hate to go into court and tell a judge that one person having three programs accessing a database should be charged differently than three people each having one program access the database. If it us based upon users, it should be based upon the number of sqlexec/sqlturbos that are running (except for the Online case of the child sqlturbos generated by PSORT_NPROCS). I don't like paying any more for software than I have to, but if I were developing commercial software, I would HAVE to define a user in this manner. Anything else would leave my software open to such abuses as you jokingly suggested. One alternative that others and I have found to the user-based pricing dilemma is to purchase a separate development license. I keep standard support on my development license (which requires about 1/8 the number of users that my run-time licensce does); this gives me phone support as needed. I keep basic support on my run-time license; this gives me breaks on updates as they become available. By doing this, I was able to purchase a completely separate development computer AND still come out spending less than if I had purchased a development license large enough for my users and developers. John Prideaux alastl@ix.netcom.com