At 02:41 PM 25/05/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>How many connections can I make in Fb 1.5 simultaneously?

Well, taking the Subject of your message, the answer is "as many as you
like". Firebird is free of any licensing that limits the number of
connections.

If you are using Windows and choose to use Windows "native" networking,
a.k.a. Named Pipes or NetBEUI, then the number will be limited by your
Windows licensing. TCP/IP connections aren't limited in this way. Linux
connections - at least for the "free beer" Linuxen - are not limited except
by configuration.

Otherwise, it gets down to the resources available on the server and what
kind of distribution architecture is being used. A multi-tier
architecture, with a web server application taking care of client requests,
will make better use of resources for 1000 users than a 2-tier architecture
with 1000 concurrent users. There's a limit of 1024 connections built into
the server; but the practical limit, beyond which you would be moving to a
distributed solution, would be somewhat lower than that, maybe 200 - 400 or so.

./heLen