Hi Bob, > So let's say I have 5 concurrent users using an in house app, > that has Valentina Office Server as a backend. Now I want to > add 15 more users, because I am expanding access to offices > off site, but still part of the company. Do I have to pay > more for the extra users? If so, then d you take into account > the prior purchase of 5 users when upgrading?
Valentina Server measures users by way of simultaneous connections rather than any form of identity (an unfortunate comparision - think momma piggy feeding her young, no reservations). That's why five connections usually does it for a much larger office (ie 25-30 users), because you can manage in your code how a user stays "connected". Office Server is stepped from 5 connections up to Unlimited, so you can upgrade the number of connections. We used to have very complex connections handling for this, until customers came back all confused and told us what their typical configurations were. So if you start with 5 connections, you can upgrade Office Server to a higher limit. BTW - with Valentina Developer Network, the 5 connection Embedded Server allows for unlimited, royalty free distribution. So if you service the SMB market, this allows you to basically not pay more after your initial VDN purchase. > Also, let's say I already have an app fully developed for > mySQL and I want to migrate. Is the valentina SQL syntax > compliant with the standards that mySQL uses? Valentina supports SQL 92 + most other bits that came later that weren't proprietary, but more interesting I think is that your mySQL app is probably built in PHP, right? We've mirrored our PHP support so that its possible to do searches/replaces with the prefix for mySQL to "val_". So while Id still test, it makes porting those PHP apps not so tedious. Ive cc'd Ruslan on this, since he can explain it better than I can. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
