I have not heard of this premise before. The whole purpose of a failover is to be online and waiting for a failure from a primary server. Having the server turned off would defeat the speed of a failover box. Unless you are dealing with Virtual servers failovers where licensing can get grey, physical servers tend not to have exceptions on server licenses.
Teddy On 8/31/06, Alan Rother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to preface this response by saying, "I don't really know, I'm > just > guessing." > > With that in mind, I would say no, you can't do that. If you have the > thing > turned on and running, with all of the software installed waiting for a > failover, I think you would need a seperate license. Now if you had a > spare > box, turned off and with no software installed and a failure occurred and > THEN you installed the license from the now dead box, that would be ok. > > Think of it this way, you are using that second box, maybe not actively, > but > you are using it. Do you think Microsoft would accept the same argument > with > regards to any of it's products? > > The best way I can come up with determining if you should buy another > license for anything is by placing value on it. If by having the software > on > a server and up and running you are in effect getting value out of it. The > value it is giving you is piece of mind and saved time in the event of a > failure. > > Just my 2 cents. When in doubt, read the EULA > > -- > Alan Rother > Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251690 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
