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

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Peter Crowther wrote:
>> From: Matthew Buckett More info about CALs for people who didn't
>> know (like me).
>> 
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/howtobuy/licensing/ 
>> caloverview.mspx
>> 
>> Aren't Mircosoft shooting themselves in the foot a little 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. £40 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).

When Microsoft are help open source apps (Moodle and Sakai) to run on
SQL Server, even with 80% discount running them on SQL server looks
rather expensive compared to just using MySQL on Windows.

Can you get around the license by installing SQL Server on another box
and then have you Web Edition connect over the network to SQL Server?

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