Max number of users?
This topic came up a lot in SBA 2006 and I see it still causes some misunderstandings in places. So I thought I'd blog about it here and link to it in future news group postings.
There is no preset limit to the number of users in Office Accounting - concurrent or otherwise.
The old MSDE (used by SBA 2006) used to have a built-in performance degration when more than 5 concurrent connections were used (concurrent workload governor - a performance throttle). Note that even that did NOT translate into a maximum number of users - you could have an unlimited number of users and only if more than 5 just happened to use a connection at the exact same time would it result in a performance degration.
But there is no such limitation in SQL Express 2005 - instead they have created other limitations like; never use more than one CPU, max use 1Gb RAM, and max size of each database (4Gb).
Here's a link to a page explaining the limits of SQL Express 2005 :
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165672.aspxIf you want to overcome those limitations you can easily use the full SQL Server 2005 instead.
In fact Office Accounting should scale very well since it relies on Sql Server - but you might find that if your company grows to more than 25 employees it could require more advanced accounting software with more features than Office Accounting.
