Re: 4D 11 SQL Licensing Issues

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 6:53 AM, John Flynn <jflynn@...> wrote:
> Doug,
>
>> I believe that they must be simply clarifying that this is not a
>> server product and that to use it for "SQL Pass-through or ODBC
>> Login" for instance you would need SQL Desktop.
>>
>> Any other assertion becomes odd the more you think about it.
>> Jan-Willem stated he carried out imports and exports to other
>> systems.  Taking the hard line I would only be allowed to
>> import/export via file, ftp or any other communication method twice a
>> day.  I would not be allowed to integrate email or any communication
>> method nor access documents on a remote volume more than twice a day.
>
> I agree it defies rational explanation. Nevertheless that is 4D's official
> line, that accessing an external non-4D database (beyond a twice-a-day
> sync'ing operation) requires a special license. My information comes not
> only from reading the license language, but the president of 4D has
> confirmed it personally (and he has also stated unequivocally that this
> restriction exists in 4D 2004 as well).
>

I'm interested in the '4d 2004 as well' part of this.

Was the 'special license' identified? I.e. what's the SKU for the
product one would need to buy to have an engine app talk to MySQL more
than twice a day.
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