Re: Multiple-onlines with shared disk?

In <1993Apr13.093414.19445@pyra.co.uk> graeme@pyra.co.uk (Graeme Sargent) writes: >In <1993Apr8.032354.23932@informix.com> aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic) writes: >>In article <1993Apr7.124632.590@pyra.co.uk> graeme@pyramid.com (Graeme Sargent) writes: >>>If, what you really require is to share TABLES (rather than CHUNKS) then >>>Informix have a little product called Informix-Star which would allow >>>you to do just that (read-only at 4.x, read/write at 5.0). >>> >>>Maybe they'll let you trade in your superfluous OnLine license!!! >>Superfluous? Not hardly. I-STAR is useful only *with* OnLine; it's not a >>*replacement for* OnLine. >I was referring to the *second* On-Line license he had been >advised/required to purchase, not the first one which I hope we all >appreciate is required. Ok, I'm the original poster of this thread -- so let me just clear up our license status. The reason we have two on-line licenses is that we have a 16-user development license, and a 65+ user run-time license. It's cheaper to get this than to get a 65+ development license. My only question (answered, I believe; though not tested) is that we don't *really* want to run both copies, just one, but run the one with <16 developers and >65 run-time users. It sounds as if (in the current release) there's no user limit checking, so we'll just run one server. Hopefully this won't break in 6.0 with some crummy license manager. -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."