Re: [Bodington-developers] Windows 2003 CALs (was IE 7 issues)

[Peter C. <Pet...@me...>]

> From: Matthew Buckett
> More info about CALs for people who didn't know (like me).
>=20
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/
> caloverview.mspx
>=20
> Aren't Mircosoft shooting themselves in the foot a little=20
> with this one
> (assuming people abide by it)? As it seems that this will effect any
> authenticated web application. Or are CALs acceptably cheap?

They're cheap for academia (80% discount) but a bit vicious for industry =
at c. =A340 a pop.  Microsoft would argue that you could use Web =
Edition, which does not require CALs, for such non-Microsoft apps.  =
However, it won't allow useful things like SQL Server to install, which =
rather limits your options.  WIMP applications (Windows/IIS/MySQL/PHP) =
apps are possible on Web edition, but not WISP (Windows/IIS/SQL =
Server/PHP or whatever).

		- Peter