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

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

> From: Matthew Buckett
> 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.

Yep.  MS aren't contributing effort out of kindness.  However, the large
Sakai deployments at least are *not* on MySQL; they're on Oracle.  Check
the price difference there...

> 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?

'the license' as in Windows CALs?  Yes (I think), but you'd still need
the SQL Server and its CALs or processor licenses.

		- Peter