Informix License related questions

Hi, I have these license related questions 1. How can you tell how many number of licenses an informix installation has or was installed with ? 2. Is it possible that if you bought 10 licenses for an informix software, you install informix only with a subset e.g. 2 or 4 licenses ? (e.g. if you want to test your applic. such that informix runs out of licenses soon). 3. What is the diff. b/w dev. and runtime license ? Are they one and same ? a) ie. say you invoke 'isql' in parallel in 3 seperate windows, do you consume 3 licenses ? b) Similarly when I compile my embedded esql program, do I consume a dev. license or a runtime license. 4. Is there any online doc. that explains how licensing works ? Thanks much for any info. Please also cc me your reply. -Atiq

In article <3814a972@news.eclipse.net>, Atiq Hashmi <hash100@mail.eclipse.net> writes >Hi, > >I have these license related questions >1. How can you tell how many number of licenses an informix > installation has or was installed with ? Look on the box in which the Informix was supplied. >2. Is it possible that if you bought 10 licenses for an informix > software, you install informix only with a subset e.g. 2 or 4 > licenses ? (e.g. if you want to test your applic. such that informix > runs out of licenses soon). No, Informix never runs out of licenses. There are no limits in the software. Instead it is just illegal to use more than you have bought. >3. What is the diff. b/w dev. and runtime license ? Are they one and > same ? No, dev allows you to compile. > a) ie. say you invoke 'isql' in parallel in 3 seperate windows, > do you consume 3 licenses ? Better check with Informix but I think yes! > b) Similarly when I compile my embedded esql program, do I consume > a dev. license or a runtime license. When you compile it's a dev license >4. Is there any online doc. that explains how licensing works ? > No, talk to informix. >Thanks much for any info. >Please also cc me your reply. >-Atiq -- David Williams