>>>Seems there is no concurrent connection limit anymore which goes along with the removal of the "throttling".
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>>Hi Mark. At the MSDN Deep Dive yesterday, the Microsoft rep said that all throttling had been removed in SQL Server 2005 Express, and there is only a database size limit (4 gigs I think) and that it will only take advantage of a single CPU. Sounds like a great (and free) platform to develop for.
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>... and the 4GB limit is per database not the 2GB aggregated limit in MSDE. I have been really digging through the SSE home page. You also get management utilities with it.

Good point. I was thinking about that myself if that really meant 4Gb per database. AFAIK I can have 16Mb databases in one SQL installation, and I can have multiple instances on one single box. It sounded there should be something wrong about it (25 users limit was my only explanation - 1 CPU, 1Gb RAM, who has more:).
If no connection limit, 4Gb per database it looks like 'unlimited'. VFPers are creative in vertical and horizontal splitting:)
OTOH I also didn't understand why .Net is for free. The only thing they sell is the IDE and any other vendor could also create an IDE for it. Say if you're an ASP.Net developer you already have another IDE for free. Of course I know nothing about marketing - probably they calculated 99% of developers would buy the IDE, species like me that can do with just a notepad are endangered:)
Cetin