Thanks for your reply.

Yes exactly, for our product we are using only one licence which give us 3 connections and we have our 3 applications which access the database with no additionnals licences.
I know that FireBird is a very good orientation for our migration but if the staff decides to buy IB 7.0, is it possible to have these 3 connections for the same price we had with IB4.2 or otherwise is a shared connection can give us the way to access the same database with our 3 applications ?

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Cédric Joubert

----- Original Message -----
From: Alan McDonald
To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: RE: [ib-support] Share a database connexion


> > 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.
>
> If you are talking about user licences. Then in IB 4.2, it was a 3
> user licence for 3 connections. In IB 5.x, it was 4. In Borland's
> commercial IB 6.x and 7.x, it is 1 user licence. If you need more
> connections, you need to buy more user licences.
>

Surely Cedric is talking about the developer license for 4.2 where you were
given one user license but that one user was permitted to make 3
connections. In fact all user licenses (purchased) were permitted to make 3
connections each. This was so as not to disenfranchise applications which
created more than one thread and thus requiring more than one connection.
These connections and this user was never "free" except for developer use.

I would also guess that since these licenses are installed on the server, he
is using three applications, one at a time, or even 3 simultaneously if they
only make one connection each. As I remember, when the connection count
against the server exceeded the client licenses X 3, you would get a
connection refusal exception.

Is that what you are taking about Cedric?

Bottom line Cedric, get Firebird, there's no more of these worries, you can
go on connecting til the cows come home.

Alan