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Reply to item 0096261 from INFORMIX-LIS sent on 93/12/13 12:22 > Andrew, > Some humor for your Pentium situation. > Let me tell you a story about informix "user" licensing. > I recently upgraded from SE on a 3B2 to ONLINE 5.0 on a Starserver E 660. > Although I was very pleased with the performance increase. Getting their > definition on what a "user" is was no easy task. My VAR got one story. > I got 2 other different storys. Finally the sales rep for Informix > told me to go by head count, not active sessions or the number of Online > Engines you can run nor the number of windows opened by a terminal to the OS. > Turns out user limit isn't "policed" in 5.0 and probably won't be until 6 or 7.0 > So getting an answer on Pentium pricing shouldn't come easy either. This is what I got from Informix on the definition of a USER: A user is defined as the unique combination of one login on one display device with no more than five processes running. Hence, one user can be operating in multiple windows on a workstation under the same login and still be counted as one user, however, one login across multiple terminals is defined as multiple users. ############################################################## David Nguyen Internet: davidn@geis.geis.com GE Information Services UUCP: uunet!ge!davidn 401 North Washington Street Voice: 1-301-340-5461 Rockville, MD 20850 USA ##############################################################