Re: ASP.NET great technology but unaffordable?

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I honestly think you should look seriously at Mono if you want to keep your
costs down. Your components would then be:

Any Linux distro (e.g. RH or SuSE or whatever your customers prefer. Mono
runs the same on all of them IFAIK)
Apache + mod_mono
MySQL or PostgreSQL (if you don't want to pay a SQL Server license) - with
connector dlls (e.g. connector/NET for MySQL)
Mono

Total cost = <CURRENCY>0.00

You can develop on Visual Studio or whatever on Windows with IIS if you
like, and just deploy to your Linux installation.

It does work. I've done it.


Peter


"Alfred Sehmueller" <alfred.sehmueller@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

we were in contact with the microsoft licence hotline last week. We
want to build a asp.net application based upon a windows 2003 server
and Microsoft sql-server 2005. It will be a commerical application for
customers. The question was which microsoft licences are required on
the customer site.

The technology: ASP.NET, One central SQL-Server login, internal user
database - no windows authentication.

The answer: Each user needs a Windows 2003 Standard Server CAL or a
External Connector licence (never heard that before). For SQL-Server
each user needs a CAL or the SQL-Server a processor licence

But this means: Never mind how your application is built, for each
little webshop, webboard, etc. hosted on a windows 2003 Standard
server you'll need an unlimited amount of Windows CALs or the external
connector licence.

I was never a friend of Linux & PHP - but how should IIS & ASP.NET
bear up against Linux & PHP then? I guess there are thousands of
illegal web applications when the above definition is true.

Thanks for your reply

Alfred



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