Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-26 Thread George Land
...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 7:51 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement George Thanks, seems I was misquoted or the price has fallen (it was a while ago). At around 1700 GBP

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-26 Thread Ross Ferris
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Steven M Wagner Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 11:56 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement Ross The question that I would ask, Was this one-directional? PC to U2. Or bi-directional? PC to U2 and back. One-directional is data collection. Bi

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-26 Thread Ross Ferris
: Friday, 25 September 2009 3:55 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement But what you are describing is connection pooling which is when you need connection pooling licenses. George On 24/09/2009 23:27, Ross Ferris ro...@stamina.com.au wrote: David, I think your

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-26 Thread Ross Ferris
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 7:51 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement George Thanks, seems I was misquoted or the price has fallen (it was a while ago). At around 1700 GBP (with underlying licence) that's more

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-26 Thread Ross Ferris
, 25 September 2009 7:08 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement So does this mean that all mv.net and designbais customers also should have connection pooling licences as well - after all they are multiplexing to some extent ? Do bluefinity and designbais have

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-25 Thread ozemail
IBM accepts this with the ODBC license. You have the option of login process query and logout, or remain logged in with connection pooling but share a pool of licenses. The same with their web services. It is concurrent licensing, which is the number of licenses logged on at any one time. If

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-25 Thread Symeon Breen
So does this mean that all mv.net and designbais customers also should have connection pooling licences as well - after all they are multiplexing to some extent ? Do bluefinity and designbais have a statement on this ? ___ U2-Users mailing list

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-25 Thread George Land
On 25/09/2009 09:51, Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk wrote: My beef is quite simply with the price of pooled connections. With the cost of the underlying licence, you are talking around 3,000 GBP plus AMC per connection, which means 10 shares costs around twice the amount you can buy SQL

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-25 Thread Brian Leach
Land Sent: 25 September 2009 10:38 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement On 25/09/2009 09:51, Brian Leach br...@brianleach.co.uk wrote: My beef is quite simply with the price of pooled connections. With the cost of the underlying licence, you are talking around

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-25 Thread Brian Leach
. That is simply untenable. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charles Stevenson Sent: 24 September 2009 23:40 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement I'm missing something. We ran

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-25 Thread Symeon Breen
-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Leach Sent: 25 September 2009 10:51 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement George Thanks, seems I was misquoted or the price has fallen (it was a while ago). At around 1700 GBP (with underlying licence) that's more

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-25 Thread George Land
reasonable. Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Land Sent: 25 September 2009 10:38 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement On 25/09/2009 09:51, Brian

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-25 Thread Symeon Breen
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Land Sent: 25 September 2009 12:40 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement It depends whether we are talking WebDE/RedBack or U2 connection pooling. If WebDE there is the underlying license but if it is a pure U2 connection pooling license

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement from a different perspective

2009-09-25 Thread Bill Haskett
David: I must be misunderstanding your comments. You state that SQL Server, for instance, would charge a per connection license for a large web site. I don't believe this is true. SQL Server pricing depends on the licensing model one needs. Generally you get a per processor or a per

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement from a different perspective

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Porter
Sorry, resend because it was hard to tell what I had written as it put the legal stuff up at the top. from the post I was replying to (so it doesn't do it again): ... SQL Server pricing depends on the licensing model one needs. Generally you get a per processor or a per server plus end

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement from a different perspective

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Porter
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Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement from a different perspective

2009-09-25 Thread ozemail
Hi Bill I raised that there are 2 options, per user or per processor. For a web site you would select the per processor model. I was generalizing licenses and was trying to point out that licensing is complex for all platforms and costs are not always as cheap as they may seem. There are

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread David Wolverton
Interesting! When we've tried to do the same, the time to login/logout/login again KILLED performance - and you had to do it for each 'piece' to stick to the letter of the law... Is UOJ somehow 'faster' at doing these Login/Out/In connections than other methods exposed by U2? -Original

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Doug
10:21 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement Interesting! When we've tried to do the same, the time to login/logout/login again KILLED performance - and you had to do it for each 'piece' to stick to the letter of the law... Is UOJ somehow 'faster' at doing these Login

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread George Land
On 24/09/2009 16:45, Doug dave...@hotmail.com wrote: George, We do not do connection pooling or use multiplexing software. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you did. I was trying to make a general point that you need connection pooling licences if you connection pool however you do it.

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread David Wolverton
George -- I am in the same headspace! David W. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Land Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:32 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Doug
haven't had a call that they are slow or need more licenses. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David Wolverton Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:47 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Connection

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Colin Alfke
My guess is that you're taking users as concurrent logged in users while Doug means them more as staff that may require access to the application. The various API's seem to login much faster than telnet (plus it's much easier to keep the login credentials than setup login scripts in your telnet

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Tony Gravagno
According to the letter of the U2 terms, common usage of the environment is prohibited without the purchase of a connection pooling license - that means many of you are in violation right now. I personally don't approve of a vendor who has a potential lawsuit pending over a large segment of their

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread phil walker
[mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 9:16 a.m. To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement According to the letter of the U2 terms, common usage of the environment is prohibited without

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Ross Ferris
Doug, I fear that if you look at the terminology and description that IBM (Rocket may change, but somehow I doubt it) use to describe a connection pool, though you may like to think that your connection manager is different, I fear you may fall foul of their definition and if you look at

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Ross Ferris
...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of David Wolverton Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 5:47 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement If you log off and on, it does satisfy the licensing - letter and intent... BUT usually the performance hit is so

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Charles Stevenson
I'm missing something. We ran Redback without connection pooling. Is that an exception because it's a U2 product or were we in violation? Ross Ferris wrote: Doug, I fear that if you look at the terminology and description that IBM (Rocket may change, but somehow I doubt it) use to describe a

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Glenn Batson
: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement I'm missing something. We ran Redback without connection pooling. Is that an exception because it's a U2 product or were we in violation? Ross Ferris wrote: Doug, I fear that if you look at the terminology and description that IBM (Rocket may change

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Ross Ferris
Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement I'm missing something. We ran Redback without connection pooling. Is that an exception because it's a U2 product or were we in violation? Ross Ferris wrote: Doug, I fear that if you look at the terminology and description that IBM (Rocket may

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Ross Ferris
Software Visage Better by Design! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Batson Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 8:43 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement I RedBack you

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement from a different perspective

2009-09-24 Thread ozemail
We as a community want U2 technology to have all the bells and whistles and to market and generally upgrades its game. But many of us want U2 to do it for free. If we don't buy appropriate numbers of licenses, then U2 will not be a viable business proposition to a supplier. As a customer we

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread David Wolverton
] Connection Pooling Statement I'm missing something. We ran Redback without connection pooling. Is that an exception because it's a U2 product or were we in violation? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement from a different perspective

2009-09-24 Thread Kevin King
Well stated, David! ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Tony Gravagno
Consider this an AD even though I also propose using freeware... From: Ross Ferris Interestingly, one of the scenario's we ran past IBM back in April/March was the use of disk shares, where people could drop files from windows applications which would be picked up by a U2 phantom

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Marc Harbeson
List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement I'm missing something. We ran Redback without connection pooling. Is that an exception because it's a U2 product or were we in violation? Ross Ferris wrote: Doug, I fear that if you look at the terminology and description that IBM (Rocket

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Steven M Wagner
Better by Design! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Batson Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 8:43 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement I RedBack you would

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread Charles Stevenson
Exactly. It's been a while since I've been involved with RedBack, or been involved in the contracts, but webshares are paid for as part of RedBack, not UV or UD, aren't they? Dollars lost on the DB side are gained on the RedBack side. Since our Vendor De Jour owns both pieces, they don't

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread George Land
2009 5:47 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement If you log off and on, it does satisfy the licensing - letter and intent... BUT usually the performance hit is so high that it FORCES you to connection pooling - or to have lots more seats! Both of which make IBM

Re: [U2] Connection Pooling Statement

2009-09-24 Thread George Land
It is the exception, you are deemed to be using an approved connection pooling mechanism and a redback webshare costs the same as a connection pooled database license except for the fact that that you need to buy a database license as well as the redback license George On 24/09/2009 23:39,