Re: License issue

Franck Yu wrote: > > I recently "inherited" a 9 year's old application running on an old > UNYSYS server with 4 dumb terminals, developed with Informix 4GL > compiler. Now my customer wants to migrate all to Intel based PC server > running on Linux. I asked the question "What should I buy as Informix > products" to Informix France and sevral its distributors and got quite > different answers. I conclude that I need to buy > > - 1 Informix 4GL compiler > - 4 Informix 4GL compiler Run-time > - 1 Informix SE develepment > - 4 Informix SE Run-time > > As there are only 4 dumb terminals each of which runs a local client on > the same server, do I really need the 4 Informix 4GL and SE run-time > licenses? Thanks for answers! Of course Informix licenses speak for themselves and I do not. However, basically Informix requires a runtime or development license for each concurrent user. If the 4 terminals may be used simultaneously then you need 4 user licenses, yes. Art S. Kagel