Ok, thanks.
I'm very interested by FireBird but i don't know if our Entreprise will choose this free product...
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Cédric Joubert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Schmidt" <pschmidt@...>
To: <Firebird-Architect@yahoogroups.com>; "Cédric JOUBERT" <cejoubert@...>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Firebird-Architect] Share a database connection


> On April 24, 2003 05:18 am, Cédric JOUBERT wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since we are Interbase 4.2 Users, we were using the 3 free users to share
> > our connexion database (we have only 1 database). We have 3 different
> > applications which share the same connection to our Interbase Database.
> >
> > So my questions are :
> > I heard that with IB 7.0 (and since the version 6.0), it is possible to
> > share a database connection between many different applications. Is it
> > really possible with Firebird and how it works ?
> > Is it for this reason the IB4.2 free users have been deleted in next
> > versions ?
>
> I don't know about sharing a connection, with Firebird the number of "free"
> connections are unlimited. There are limits, but they are related to other
> factors, such as server size. So the idea of sharing a connection, to stay
> under the "free" connections limit is not an issue.
>
> Paul S