Windows 2000 Server Licensing

[Rob Beckman]

Hi,
We have a SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000 Server.
We have processor licenses for SQL Server. Now, I'm
trying to figure out the number of CALs needed for our RF
devices that get information from SQL Server. All of our
200 devices communicate to a VB application running on
Windows 2000 through sockets and do not authenicate to
Windows 2000. Do we need CALS for these devices? And if
we do, do we need one CAL for each devices or just for the
number of concurrent connections?

Thanks

 

[Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP]

Hi,
We have a SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000 Server.
We have processor licenses for SQL Server. Now, I'm
trying to figure out the number of CALs needed for our RF
devices that get information from SQL Server. All of our
200 devices communicate to a VB application running on
Windows 2000 through sockets and do not authenicate to
Windows 2000. Do we need CALS for these devices? And if
we do, do we need one CAL for each devices or just for the
number of concurrent connections?

Thanks

Windows 2000 Server CAL's are only required for connections that use the
server's Server service. A quick way to determine if your
application/device depends on the Server service is to stop it and see
if the app/device continues to function normally. If yes, you don't
need the server CAL's. If not, you do need them.

hth