[OT?] Licensing..

[Rob Meade]

Hi all,

Firstly, sorry if this is deemed OT for this group but I wasn't sure where
to start.

I need to setup a server to host some clients websites, and one of our own.

We will require SQL Server and also Windows Server (2003 ideally).

I dont fully understand the licensing requirements of any of this, the way I
see it is that I buy each product once and that should be it, but as we
could have 1000 visitors in a day to one of these sites for example, does
that affect the licensing?

Any advice would be useful, I've just checked the MS site but got lost
almost immediately - phrases such as "volume licensing" didnt really help...

Once again, sorry if deemed OT.

Regards

Rob

 

[Rykel]

In short, no. The licensing model for W2K - 2K3 is based on connections from
user and/or computer accounts (plus system accounts) and web connections are
irrelevent. Your single license for 2K3 will allow you to run as many
virtual websites as you want and have as many millions of visitors as you
can handle. The only 'web-based' area where licensing creeps in is if you're
publishing Exchange to the outside world, as IMAP/POP connectoids kinda
count. Webserving and FTP is nuthin to do with licence numbers (but if
you're planning on offering SSH shell access using a third-party plugin then
in theory they count as 'users', that one's a bit grey)

Since all your web-query-originated SQL connections are going to be from the
local machine system account to itself, that doesn't count either.

~D~