>>>>Just one.. cost.
>>>>The CAL's add up quickly and for small clients with several users the bite is deep.
>>>>In all other respects, I love it.
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>>Don't think I had fully appreciated how it breaks down, 70% of our clients are small businesses with between 1 and 5 work stations.
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>>My understanding is that for single user Express is free and would do the job? after that it's Workgroup? Is that OK for up to 5 users?
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>Express is free for any number of users. Limit is 10 GIG per database.

Other per-instance limits:

- one physical CPU (with any number of cores)
- will use only 1GB RAM maximum, no matter how much RAM is available

With modern hardware, and enough RAM to cache most or all of the production database(s), those limits should still be plenty strong enough for most of the 1 - 5 user base.

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>>Can you advise roughly want it is working out to for you?
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>>Gary.