Re: Processor Based License Model
From: Dr. Dweeb (dr_at_dweeb.com)
Date: 05/13/04
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Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 04:18:40 +0200
Chuck Chopp wrote:
> 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.
>
What has this got to do with TPS ???????
Connections != TPS
> 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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