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On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Neil Williams wrote: > The number of applications a user can run at a time is only limited by > the amount of memory (real and virtual). I don't see the point of MS > restricting things like that - it's completely machine-specific. Must be > shome mistake. Never underestimate the greed of the corporate engine. I come across this all the time in the PBX "industry". Traditionally *everything* is licensed and somewhat artificially restricted. Sometimes it is a hardware issue, but mostly not. So you have a PBX, would you like extensions with that? That'll be XXX for each license and YYY per month maintenance. Oh, you want voicemail? That'll be ZZZ, etc. I have had resellers of my PBX kit ask me to put in limitations so they could impose such conditions themselves - then sell their clients additional extensions, voicemail, features like call & hunt groups and so on. (I refused - primarily because I couldn't be bothered to write the code to artificially reduce the capabilities!) Now I do have offerings with different capabilities, but they're due to hardware constraints rather than arbitrary software impositions. Microsoft are just being greedy, but it could be seen as a good marketing ploy from their point of view (and I've seen similar in other places) Not that I'm a fan of MS, but seen from their point of view - Sell the entry level for way under the going rate, then when the clients outgrow it, they can have the full-whack for an additional payment. A bit like getting kids in 3rd world countries hooked on tobacco... Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html