Andrew,

> I want to bring to the attention of the community, especially developers

of

> systems that use InterBase who like us are in the position of offering our
> systems with either Firebird or InterBase as a back end.
>
> We have been testing the certified release of InterBase 6 and discovered
> that instead of allowing 4 connections per user license you now only get

1.

> This has been confirmed by our Borland representative.
>
> The questions that spring to mind are:
>
> 1) Were any of you aware of this change to the licensing, as we haven't

been

> told of the change?

The way that users were going to be counted in 6.0, did change - in that a
connection was to be a user, this was done to make the counting of
connections / users easier. However with Open Source, free deployment and
unlimited users this didn't have any ramifications.

> 2) Why haven't Borland reduced the cost of the license by 3/4 to

compensate?

That was the plan, before Open Source, and before Borland re-introduced
licensing (oops:-))

> 3) Is Firebird 1.0 for Win32 going to be ready soon?

I'd say its usable now, its only at 0.9x, because 1.0 is to have some new
functionality, although others please jump in and correct me if I am wildly
wrong in this statement.

Hope John's car is working well...

Regards
Paul Beach
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