Concurrent user access

June, 2000

Society members offer opinions on whether there is a "rule of thumb" for calculating the ratio of concurrent users to "real" users. 

Concurrent user access is one of several techniques used to deliver fee-based information services over a computer network or to sell multi-user software installed on a local area network. Other methods are individual accounts with passwords and unlimited access for everyone in the enterprise. With concurrent user access, the publisher's server limits the number of actual users that can be using a program or information service simultaneously.

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