AAARRRGGGHH!
OK, so. I get my copy of SQL Server 2000 with the Processor license
thinking that's all I'm going to need. Open the box, read the
license. WHOOPS! No commercial hosting allowed under this license.
Seems it's only good for your own personal website. Great deal for
4,200.00.
So, now I've spent the past 3 days on and off the phone with
Microsoft. First I need an Application Service provider license. "Get
it from Dell or CDW" they say. Call Dell and CDW. "What's an
Application Service Provider license?" is the response from both of
them.
Back on the phone with Microsoft. "Oh. you were misled. You need the
Microsoft Commercial Internet Services license. To be licensed as an
ASP, you have to have at least 2 people MCSE certified that work for
the company". Send me to their web page. Read that I need a MCSI
"Server" license and MCSI "Domain Access license" for every domain
using SQL. There are only 2 companies in the US that sell MCIS
licenses. Call the first one. "What's a Microsoft Commercial Internet
Services license? What's a Domain Access license? We'll try and find
out what you're talking about and call you back.".
Is anyone out there hosting commercial web sites and using SQL Server
as the database? How are you licensed? If as a MCSI, where did you
get it? Are you just pretending ignorant and using the processor
license or CALs? I've got over $10,000.00 invested here and can't
even take the stuff out of the box. I don't see how anyone can be
purchasing these licenses as one of the only 2 companies in the US
that sells them don't know what it is. I'm too fed up to even call
the other one yet.
How can they make this such a debacle? SAY IT!!! The license is
$xxxx.xx. Call here. Pay here. Sign here.
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Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations
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