I'm thinking that ES will solve a bunch of problems I'm facing. Many of them are related to the use of a VPN to access the database over all sorts of interesting (read slow and unreliable) connections.



However, before I recommend this to the execs, I need to actually test it. I need to install it and access it remotely and compare the access times to those of using the VPN.



I know the SDK is included with SF, but I'm not clear how to test it.



- Can I do initial testing all locally as it stands now (i.e. single user testing locally, just to see if the code works)

- Do you have a special trial license available?



Thanks!