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Developer License

A Developer Kit provides a developer license, documentation, samples and example programs and 30 days email tech support, but no server license. The Developer Kit enables you to develop and market dbOvernet-enabled products, without incurring the additional cost of a server license. 

  • Through the Developer Kit, a licensed developer can develop, test and demonstrate both client- and server-side applications, but not deploy them for live, operational use except against licensed servers.
  • A licensed developer has the right to develop, test and demonstrate applications on their own machines.
  • A licensed developer can simulate applications for development and testing purposes by running the server-side executable(s) on one computer and client application(s) on one or more other computers, provided those other computers are the property of the developer.
  • One license serves for all the developers in a company at one physical location, provided they access the dbOvernet Developer Kit over a network, from a single server. Any demonstrations must not use operational or live databases.
  • Developers can demonstrate dbOvernet-enabled applications off-premise on a standalone, unnetworked computer, where both the client- and server-side applications are resident on that computer, or from a networked computer located anywhere in the world, where the network is the Internet, and the client-side applications access demonstration databases at the developer's premises.

            This lets developers set up server-side databases on their own computers that demonstrate the effectiveness of their client-side applications by connecting users over the Internet.

Server License - unlimited access to a single server

A server license is required for any server executing one or more deployed server-side applications.

For the most part, any one business would probably require only one server license, assuming the dbOvernet server-side applications reside on one computer. Licenses are based on server-side computers, not users. There is no limit to the number of users that can access a server-side computer and there is no limit on the number of server-side applications running on a single computer.

A server-side application is one that accesses databases and delivers datasets to connected clients. A connected client is an application being executed from a computer other than the one executing the server-side application.

  • Each server computer that executes one or more server-side application(s) responding to requests from a connected client requires one single server license.
  • There is NO licensing fee for client-side applications.
  • There is NO licensing fee for a standalone computer where both the client and server sides are executing on the machine.
  • A server may multi-host and execute more than one server-side application at a time without an additional license fee.
  • A server may serve any number of LANs or other networks, or intranets/Internets and any number of users at one time with the one license.

Special licensing

We can provide special licensing for specific projects, retail and vertical market applications, or large-scale corporate implementations, on a case-by-case basis.   

For more information on licensing, please contact us.

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