We have a new Progress rep (yet again) and we are trying to determine what Appserver product and licensing model we need to get.
Our customer is very small (Workgroups 10.2B about 25 users). The current license for the DB is concurrent user.
We are in the process of designing/co-developing a quoting app for their salespeople, and intend on using the Basic version of Appserver (or Enterprise version if necessary) to do the usual passing of data back and forth via Coldfusion (their choice). There would be a maximum of 5-10 users, generally not at the same time. No webspeed, no web services required.
According to this sales rep, we are supposed to match the user count and licensing model of the workgroups license, but we have already done this for other customers where we have named user for the DB and x-number of agents for the appserver (which I think are different license models, but I could be wrong).
Is that correct?
And as for Appserver, the rep claims that the Basic Appserver can have only 1 agent and 2 processes max.
Is this correct? And if so, why would Progress require a 5 user minimum when you (supposedly) only handle 2 processes concurrently?
From my perspective, the rep was (shall we say) not exactly knowledgeable (she was really pushing Enterprise $$$ though even with low user counts and light utilization).
Any suggestions/comments/advice as to what we should be pressing for is most welcome. Anyone with knowledge of the differences between Basic and Enterprise Appserver would also be much appreciated.
Our customer is very small (Workgroups 10.2B about 25 users). The current license for the DB is concurrent user.
We are in the process of designing/co-developing a quoting app for their salespeople, and intend on using the Basic version of Appserver (or Enterprise version if necessary) to do the usual passing of data back and forth via Coldfusion (their choice). There would be a maximum of 5-10 users, generally not at the same time. No webspeed, no web services required.
According to this sales rep, we are supposed to match the user count and licensing model of the workgroups license, but we have already done this for other customers where we have named user for the DB and x-number of agents for the appserver (which I think are different license models, but I could be wrong).
Is that correct?
And as for Appserver, the rep claims that the Basic Appserver can have only 1 agent and 2 processes max.
Is this correct? And if so, why would Progress require a 5 user minimum when you (supposedly) only handle 2 processes concurrently?
From my perspective, the rep was (shall we say) not exactly knowledgeable (she was really pushing Enterprise $$$ though even with low user counts and light utilization).
Any suggestions/comments/advice as to what we should be pressing for is most welcome. Anyone with knowledge of the differences between Basic and Enterprise Appserver would also be much appreciated.