>Aha!
>And what is the "equivalent number of U2 licenses " that I would need to
>buy?
>If I had an internet-facing U2 system for example - which I don't - how
>could I work out this number?  In theory it could be millions of
>prospective users, and while I'm sure IBM would love to sell me a
>million-seat license, I'm equally sure I couldn't afford it!

>LeRoy, I'm not trying to be difficult here, I'm genuinely interested in
>how, if I were back in the IT Manager role, I would license my U2
>database in a way that meet both IBM's reasonable expectation that they
>should receive a fair return for the use of their IP, and my
>management's equally reasonable expectation that I should provide the
>service they require at a cost that the business can sustain.

The answer here is RedBack. It is designed for exactly this purpose. We
have customers servicing millions of requests per day on a hundred or less
Webshares.

For those that want to use UO.NET or UniObjects for Java, we will be
releasing connection pooling in UniData 7.1 at the end of June. It is
separately licensed and does not consume database seats. This will follow
for UniVerse at its next major release.


Regards,

LeRoy F. Dreyfuss
Product Manager
IBM UniVerse and UniData (U2) Extended Relational Databases
IBM Information Management Software
Tel: 303-672-1254          Fax: 303-294-4832
Mobile: 720-341-4317   Tie-line: 770-1254
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