[thelist] SQL Server 2k Pricing
Ken Schaefer
ken at adOpenStatic.com
Thu Oct 16 20:25:24 CDT 2003
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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)
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