[thelist] MDSE vs SQL Server

Paul Bennett paul at teltest.com
Mon Feb 17 20:28:00 CST 2003


Ken Schaefer wrote:

>[Paul]
>In addition to  David's comments:
>
>Be aware that MSDE has its own licensing rules - you can't just "get a copy
>and use it for whatever you want to"
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/msdeuse.asp
>
>Later versions of Office Professional and Office Developer Edition had MSDE
>on them, as does SQL Server, the various Visual Studio products and it's
>available via MSDN Subscriptions.
>
Only reason I asked is because we have an existing Visual Studio.Net
package that (I believe) may have the MSDE hidden away in there
somewhere. And hey, it's Microsoft, so I wasn't exactly expecting it
free. ;)

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