Re: Question about Informix OnLine Licencing

Art S. Kagel schrieb: > > Andrzej Piotrowski wrote: > > > > Does anybody know, how it works? Does Informix OnLine consume one licence or > > two licences when I,m trying to establish 2 connections using the same > > account from 2 different clients? Sorry, if this question is obvious, but I > > don't know to much obout Informix OnLine. > > Physically Informix does not count license accesses so it does not > matter to the server, you cannot run out of licenses at runtime. > > Last time I spoke to Informix on the subject, legally, their license > agreement counts multiple connections by the same user on the same > client as one concurrent connection for license purposes so you would > be counted as two connections in your scenario. BTW this caused > Informix no end of grief licensing us since we have thousands of users > but the client programs NEVER connect to the database only our own > middleware-like data servers which all run as the same user on the > server box itself, so ONLY ONE user! Fun negotiations, anyway enjoy. Oops: In germany the user-definition of informix contains a sentence, which i may not have correctly translated: Each connection to a multiplexer - e.g. a transaction monitor - is counted as a user. Informix is n o t counting the number of connections, which is reduced by the multiplexer. Isn't your "middleware-like data server" a multiplexer in this meaning? Or is the US-definition of users missing such a clause? hth martin