Re: Counting users

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@arbsol.com>
>   If the per session price were reasonable then I believe you are
> correct. It can be fairly argued that each additional session is of some
> value to the user and therefore should be payed for. However at the
> price many packages extort for a 'session' it is not an option. It also
> could be argued that it's unlikely the user is actively utilzing more
> than one session at any given moment. Depends on the definition of
> 'utilizing'.

===> I'll adopt a simple operational definition:
If any of my application's programs are on your invocation
stack, you are using my application. what can be simpler?

> 
> Leif Svalgaard wrote:
> > 
> > I don't get it.
> > It would seem to me that a reasonable (and correct?) and
> > fair way of doing this is to count the number of simultaneous
> > sessions (no matter who the users are and how they are signed
> > on and to what) that are USING MY APPLICATION at any time.
> > This is very easy to do.


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