Re: Processor Based License Model
From: Chuck Chopp (ChuckChopp_at_rtfmcsi.com)
Date: 05/13/04
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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:17:41 -0400
John Vottero wrote:
> It makes a lot of sense. Microsoft has already started doing something like
> this. MSDE is actually SQL Server with a throttle and a db size limit of
> 2GB. The throttle kicks in at around 5 connections. You can redistribute
> MSDE with your application (for free). Lots of applications will work just
> fine with the throttle. If performance becomes a problem, you just buy a
> SQL Server license.
>
> Man would I like to have something like this for Rdb. Digital was close to
> that when they bundled runtime Rdb with VMS. Selling Rdb was one of the
> biggest mistakes Bob Palmer made.
Yes, in my "day job", I do some Win32 application development for both
desktop Windows and WinCE, and MSDE is used in both of them. It is nice
having a single set of API functions to use when working with the database
while being able to yank out MSDE and put full-blown SQL Server in its place
as the database scales up larger. And, yes, you are correct in that MSDE
*is* SQL Server 2000, albeit with some throttles on it. IIRC, you can have
more than 5 connections to the database server in MSDE, but only 5
concurrent transactions can be processed at any one time by the database
engine so the workload is effectively throttled. But, the thing that is
missing is all of the admin tools that come with SQL Server.
I grind my teeth everytime I think of all the stupid assed things that Bob
Palmer did. Beyond the sale of RDB, there was that debacle where the
Polycenter suite of tools was sold off to C.A. and that one really burned me up.
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