Just to clarify this discussion, you only get this if you purchase device licensing. The last time I had the need to look into this you could still purchase U2 via a concurrent user license model. This did not care about IP addresses for license verification. If you opened up two sessions on your client you consumed two licenses.
As to the rest it comes down to a definition of "concurrent user". The generally accepted definition is something like a user that is connected to and having access to the database services. I agree with the example given by many. The web services model is no different than purchasing 25 licenses, but having 50 users that may, and any time, attempt to connect to the database. Only 25 at a time can use the services of the DB so no violation here. That would be the same for web services users that only connect long enough to request the db services then disconnect. Again, no violation here. Now if you were to come up with a multiplexing solution where several users maintained a persistent access to the DB through a single connection then you may have a problem. However if each user connects, does something, then disconnections I would not lose any sleep over it. Rich Taylor | Senior Programmer/Analyst| VERTIS 250 W. Pratt Street | Baltimore, MD 21201 P 410.361.8688 | F 410.528.0319 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.vertisinc.com Vertis is the premier provider of targeted advertising, media, and marketing services that drive consumers to marketers more effectively. "The more they complicate the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the drain" - Montgomery Scott NCC-1701 <<<snip>>> With device licensing, you can get ten connections per license. When all the connections are coming from one 'factory' that can vary the device subkey after each ten connections... there you go, potentially ten different users on one license. -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University, PA, IRM ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
