>>>I've heard rumors last year that some guy hacked out a single registry entry that has to be edited to convert a NTWS into a real server, meaning that the software being installed for both is mostly the same. Now this may be just a rumor or a legend, but it does have some logic. I'm not really interested, just curious - if anyone else has heard of this.
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>It's NOT a rumor. I've seen the hack required - replace a couple of HEX bytes. An article in Dr Dobbs Journal a few years ago laid it all out. If I remember correctly there was a hack to change the number of users to unlimited, also. But, since you probably don't shoplift either, this info isn't of any real value, is it?

The value of it is just moral, and kind of justifies the it-has-it-all architecture. Proves (to myself) that I was right when I've thought of doing the same thing with some of my apps - a single user version and a multiuser version should be the same, with just a bit of difference stuffed somewhere in the configs. And the price would be different as well. Kind of lowers the maintenance costs - I have only one version, really.

Reminds me of an old legend - there was an IBM cupboard in a big state company over here, some dozen years ago, and it had, say 4M of RAM. Then they paid for extra 4M, and the guy flew over from Vienna to - cut one wire. All the 8M were there from the beginning - making two different memory boards was too expensive, so they made one, and disabled half of it, and sold it about half price. Then they sold the other half, without much moving a finger.