ODBC pricing and usage...

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006, John Esak wrote:
>Okay, I don't know this stuff, and want some advice.
...
>Is there any way to make the expense of running one and only one program
>from several different machines in one and only one location, cheaper. I
>want to support FP Tech, but I know the license manager has been under
>discussion a lot in the alpha test area. I just want to post this here,
>though and keep the possibly philosophical discussions here. The alpha list
>is getting closer and closer to a beta version that doesn't have any bugs
>left, so I don't want to tie it up with this probably very dumb question.

Is it possible to install FilePro on a *nix server, and run it from the
Windows machines using Samba?

...
>Damn, if Unix isn't so much easier and saner than all this.

I've said that for over 20 years not.  I've always found working with
DOS/Windows to be an incredible PITA compared to *nix systems.

Bill
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