Is this specific to Microsoft's license, or in general?
I remember Lotus came in to the company I work at to Demo Dominio
server. One of their 'features' they said was that you could use 1 Oracle
named user license to handle unlimited connections by letting the dominio
server handle security.
At 12:52 PM 11/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
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> > It seems to me that, for CF users, SQL7 is a much better buy.
> >
> > In CF Administrator, you can limit the number of worker threads
> > (simultaneous connections) to 5, for example. This means at
> > most 5 CF
> > users can use SQL7 at the same time. No Internet Connector
> > License needed,
> > just 5 CALS.
> >
> > Total cost for SQL7 plus 5 CALs is $1000 or so (less on eBay).
> >
> > Not sure if this is available for SQL Server 2000 (although I
> > see CALs are).
> >
>
>Um.... Nice try, but that's illegal. M$'s licensing states that if
>you are using SQL server for a webserver, you NEED the internet
>connector license OR an unlimited client license. CF Server is
>considered multiplexing middleware, and there's a specific section in
>the licensing about that. You *can't* get around it by limiting the
>number of worker threads. And besides... Using only 5 workers on
>any reasonably powered server would be crippling it -- you want
>between 4 and 6 thread per processor if my memory serves...
>
>Best regards,
>Zac Bedell
>
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