An alternative Enterprise database would be one of the Sybase products. I'm
not sure about their licensing agreements, but their products are generally
cheaper than MS and Oracle. We use Sybase exclusively.
Todd Ashworth
CEO, Janty Corporation
www.janty.com - We put the `u` in music!
----- Original Message -----
From: "McCollough, Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fusebox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 7:57 PM
Subject: Want to be robbed blind by M$ ???
> Okay, here's the deal, folks. I'm looking for a suggestion on an
alternative
> to MS SQL 7 / SQL 2K. Wonder why? Check out this letter we received back
> from M$ regarding an inquiry on the proper licensing for SQL 7. This has
> pretty severe implications for CF users, and that's us...
>
> With the kind of $ they want ($28k * 4 processors), I can pretty much pick
> from any RBDMS on the market, and I'm sure not going to feel chained to M$
> for that kind of bread. Does anybody have a good suggestion for an
> enterprise RBDMS that isn't going to cost over $100K, i.e., doesn't have a
> rake-in-the-cash-now-to-fill-our-Supreme-Court-Battle-warchest pricetag?
>
> === START ===
> Customers are not allowed to use the web server as a multiplexer. The Cold
> Fusion Web Server application makes SQL Server calls on behalf of actual
> Users. These Users all are required to be licensed. Determining the
> appropriate license depends on the type of user and the customers
deployment
> scenario.
>
> For users who not company employees, vendors or partners:
>
> The customer will need to purchase Internet connector license for each
> processor used by SQL Server 7. If the same database server also supports
> internal users, the customer will also need to license the server for the
> maximum concurrent usage by internal employees, vendors and partners. This
> is SQL Server 7 per server mode licensing.
>
> If the Users are exclusively company employees, vendors and partners:
>
> The customer could choose to place the server in per seat mode and
purchase
> licenses for each employee, partner and vendor. This CAL would license
> individual users to access all Microsoft SQL Servers in the environment
and
> to install a local database server on client machines for off-line use.
>
> In SQL Server 7, we offered an unlimited CAL server version of SQL 7
> Enterprise for $28,000. This single server license would support all
> internal users, vendors and partners without requiring CAL counting.
>
> In a SQL 2000 scenario, Microsoft has combined the Internet connector
> license and per server mode licenses into a PER CPU licensing model. The
> customer would purchase SQL CPU licenses for each processor installed on
the
> database server.
> === END ===
>
> Alan McCollough
> Web Programmer
> Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
> Alaska Native Medical Center
>
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