On Dec 17, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Doug Neale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This may sound like a 'blast from the past' but I had a similar need a
> few years ago and the client agreed to run a SQLserver solution. We
> supplied a licence for a number of simultaneous connections and as
> each
> separate PC and Mac fired up our app it logged onto the central
> database
> which kept count of the number running at the same time.
>
> Our application was supplied with a central server based database
> which
> all users needed access to in order to use our system. In those
> customers with large networks and firewalls between segments, the
> machines couldn't 'see' each other, but they had to be able to access
> one server where all the output was filed.
Thanks Doug,
That sounds like an elegant system. Unfortunately, in this case, the
app will be sold and used by relatively small (1-10) workgroups, so I
don't think we can use that approach.
--pt
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