[LuffmanA]

Thanks for the answers. Additional information about each is listed below. Initially, we were only looking at UR for 2-4 people but management was so impressed with the application that it quickly escalated to the ultimate answer for sharing info.

1) Number of people actually editing at any one time - 2 or 3
Number of people accessing for lookup features - up to 20 but probably not all at the same time.
Admin users might like to access from off site but can be limited to admin only when hard connection to LAN is available.

2) Great - I could not find a reference to this in your manual or help files.

3 & 4) we'll have to figure a way to deal with it. Would you consider this for a future version?

5) While the majority of POTENTIAL users are off-site they would not be accessing the database on a daily basis and would never need to edit (reader version for them). Almost all users who would be accessing continually are connected to the LAN via desktop machine. All admin types are connected by LAN although 2 would like to access from off-site when traveling.

Most files will be small: one page docs, XLS files, text FAQ's, links and PDF.

All of this brings up a few new questions:
A) if we have people using the reader version, can they have it open in the background (accessing only occasionally)? Will this affect the response time for admins if most connections to the database are idle?

B) is it possible to link to the database (residing on a 'public' drive) from the internet? If not, this would eliminate almost all off-site users. They currently access data through the secure website or ASP (java) page. Only a handful have VPN access, Remote Desktop is not an option, we might investigate Terminal Services but, catering to the lowest denominator, that is probably too complicated for most of them.

Thanks again for the answers. I will download a second trial copy and begin working with a co-admin on adding info and testing.