[thelist] SQL Server 2k Pricing

[Ken Schaefer]

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From: "Joshua Olson" <joshua at waetech.com>
Subject: [thelist] SQL Server 2k Pricing


: I'm looking around and pricing SQL Server 2k Standard and
: I'm not clear what the real difference (other than price) is
: between 5CAL, 10CAL, 1-Processor, etc.  Can anybody
: shed any light on the difference and what that difference
: equates to (in terms of performance) for real world
: deployment for use with Web Servers.
:
: Thank you.
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Hi there,

Plenty of info here:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/default.asp
    -and-
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/faq.asp

For unauthenticated web applications, you usually need the per-processor
licence. If you have authenticated Windows users, or authenticated client
devices, then you can get per-user or per-device CALs.

IIRC the licencing for SQL Server was changed recently so that you can't
just buy a single per user/per device CAL for a webserver hosting a web-app
connected to SQL Server. In such cases you need to buy the per-processor
licence.

Cheers
Ken

Microsoft MVP - Windows Server (IIS)