Re: ASP.NET great technology but unaffordable?

you do need a special license to connect sqlserver to an internet application no matter how many proxies you use. oracle and db2 have similar rules.

for older sqlserver's there is a connection license, for 2005 you pick the no cals server process license (charge per processor).

sqlexpress is a free option.



-- bruce (sqlwork.com)


Juan T. Llibre wrote:
re:
!> 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.

You need Windows CALs only for machines which access shared resources
by connecting/logging into your Windows 2003 Server, i.e., developers, for example.

Users who access the server via HTTP don't need CALs.

As for SQL Server 2005, why not use SQL Server 2005 Express ?
It's quite robust...and it's free.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx

In fact, you can get *all* Express Editions totally free.




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"Alfred Sehmueller" <alfred.sehmueller@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:1177506590.023958.311260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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