John,

Here is how Jim Duffy responded when I commented that MSDE is designed for 5 concurrent users:

Re: How many is to much ??? Thread #652667 Message #652758

Perhaps your customers, even one with 15 workstations, would not be creating enough load to slow it down at all. I have not had a chance to load test it with different levels of activity and users to see when it actually does slow down.

Also, if you go to msdn.microsoft.com and do a search on MSDE you will get some more reading material.

>Steve,
> I just found a great thread here on MSDE. It defintely won't work for us. Although most of our shops are small we are trying to land some companies with multiple shops and we currently have a few with 15 concurrent users in our program. The program for multi shop companies will be large with a lot of users. But thanks a lot for the suggestion. I learned something new.
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>John.
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>>Hi John,
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>>Are you considering MSDE? If not, why not?
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>>I'm just curious...
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>>>Hilmar,