Re: Counting users

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

From: <Ron@cpumms.com>
> <<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.
> 
> I agree, this is very easy to do (in fact it's currently what we do now)
> but this is not what they want. If a user can use two sessions to gain
> faster access to different parts of the application, why should we charge
> him twice? Their argument is is that they are only on one session at a
> time.
> 

By golly, I got it ! ! !
Now, then your problem is to prevent users from ripping you off by
all using the same user id. I can even see that.
If I'm using your application on my terminal in my office and
I go downstairs for some reason and need to access your application
from a different terminal, then I would be charged twice. Maybe
this happens so rarely that the customers don't complain about it,
so counting physical terminals seems to be a reasonable
compromise.


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