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This may or may not be Off Topic. But I have been asking myself this and I thought maybe some of you could answer this.

Let's say I have to use a commercial RDBMS software by Oracle, Microsoft, or Sybase, and I am bound (of course) to their "per user" license.

How does this license scheme, based on users, is implemented when it is a web based project?

What I am really wondering is, since a web page can be acceses by a very large number of users simultaneosly in a very short time, do you have to pay a special license fee because it is a web based application or are you still restricted to your "per user" license?

I thought that maybe they considered the web server (nobody) user just one user that could make any number of simultaneous connections. But then this could be used as a work around to avoid paying extra user licenses.

Anyone that has worked with commercial DB solutions contribute to this post.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to OT: Commercial RDBMS Licenses (Moved from Q&A) by Anonymous Monk

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