Hi,
A quick couple of questions. Some pointers would be appreciated

(1) The licensing guide talks about the number of internal applications that
can be connected to partner and standard editions. I suppose this applies to
web services also? In my system we are getting data loads from dozens of
suppliers via a webservice and an FTP service, this data is stored in a
custom database (via an internal webservice) and there is a third party web
service providing some functionality. In such a scenario, are we looking at 
2
'applications' (ie) the third party and the internal web service? If the
third party decides to provide more functionality with their web services,
does this increase the number of 'applications'?

(2) How well does Standard Edition perform as compared to the Enterprise
Edition (ie) are there any inherent performance constraints (other than the
fact that you are not allowed to scale out) ? Our system will be very data
heavy, not high volume messaging even when we get a 100 suppliers on board,
so i could potentially use the standard edition instead of splashing out on
enterprise edition (as we have a limited budget). The guide also seems to be
very strict on the issue of no failover and clustering allowed for partner
and standard editions, but is it really feasible to deploy a production
solution without these features? Any thoughts on this?

TIA
Benjy

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