> Anyway it was the least reliable way to do licensing because it never
> worked with Classic Server (not to mention clusters). Owners of such
> software must invent something else.
>

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

If you are going to break something as important as this without prior warning and without any alternative means then I'm speechless. It will be interesting to see how many applications in the field will be affected when everybody finds out.

> Anyway it was the least reliable way to do licensing
> because it never worked with Classic Server.

Rubbish. If you only deployed your app using SS then it was most reliable - and simple way - of doing usage.

Right - so how now to get around this problem?

Tom

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Dimitry Sibiryakov <sd@...> wrote:
>
> 08.03.2010 19:37, tomsee7 wrote:
> > So that I am crystal-clear:
> >
> > Does this mean that when logging in a user can no longer determine how many other users are concurrently logged in (and their usernames)?
>
> Unless they all are logged in with the same name.
>
> > If so, then this causes a massive problem for software that is using this to determine licence usage and whether the user can proceed to log in!
>
> Anyway it was the least reliable way to do licensing because it never
> worked with Classic Server (not to mention clusters). Owners of such
> software must invent something else.
>
> --
> SY, SD.
>