Re: SQL 2005 Developer Licensing question

Thank you.

for the sake of completeness, I just got off the phone with Microsoft and
you are essentially correct. A developer license is valid for any server
which will be used in a non-production capacity. Developers are allowed to
install Developer edition on as many servers as is necessary to successfully
complete their project, even if that includes QA/Staging/acceptance testing
servers and central development boxes. As soon as production data enters the
database, then Developer Edition is no longer a suitable alternative and you
must upgrade to a 'production' level database product.

Cheers,

Justin

"Arnie Rowland" wrote:

My understanding of the Developers Edition license is that you are covered
for a Development server, an Integration/Staging server, even a QA/Test
server, local servers on the developers computer, etc. -as long as no one
except developers access those SQL Servers, and as long as each developer
and/or Tester has a Developer Edition License

For a more definitive answer, check with the VL folks at: (800) 426-9400

From: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/developer/default.mspx

Each license of SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition entitles one developer to
use the software on as many systems as necessary and additional developers
can use the software by purchasing additional licenses.

From:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/c/a/ecafe5d1-b514-48ab-93eb-61377df9c5c2/SQLServer2005Licensingv1.1.doc

DEVELOPER EDITION
SQL Server Developer Edition is a separate product and is used for
development and testing purposes only. It is licensed per developer or
tester (person).


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Westwood Consulting, Inc

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"Justin" <Justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

First time poster, and not sure if this is the right forum for this
question.

I'm confused about the interpretation of the license agreement for SQL
2005
Developer edition. Can someone please help me identify how my topology
should be properly licensed?

Topology:
5 X developer workstations each with a local copy of SQL Installed
1 Development server with a copy of SQL Server installed - this
development
server is for the team to merge their code into a single code base and to
unit test the application
1 Staging server with a copy of SQL Server installed - this server is for
acceptance testing, and for clients to view the working site and to
pre-populate data etc.
1 Production server with a copy of SQL Server installed - umm, for the
live
database :)

When trying to figure out our needs, This was the software that I believed
we needed
5 X SQL Developer edition
3 X SQL Enterprise (one for Dev, one for staging and one for production).
we need Enterprise edition and not standard due to some functionality that
only comes with Enterprise.

is this correct, or can we use 2 Developer editions for both the staging
and
development servers as well?

Thanks for you help, and hopefully this is a clear description of the
problem.

Justin




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