> Alan how many people are you going to have connecting to the SQL db
> directly (not through the web) I suspect that this number is relatively
> small. In that case you don't need the 28K unlimited license you
> just need a internet connecter license per processor at like 2k per
> and enough CAL license as people that need direct SQL access. So you
> are under 10k for you license.
This is actually not true "If the Users are exclusively company employees,
vendors and partners". If you are serving data to the internet public at
large, you can get away with an internet connector license. If your users
can be defined and counted, such as the list in the quote above, you have to
buy a CAL for each one.
It gets worse though... Say your users *were* all anonymous web users and
you are using an internet connector lic. Say you'd like a nice failover
solution on dual processor machines and plan on using MS SQL2K Ent Edition
(which you must use for failover). You know how much you are going to have
to pay? Try $80K! Yes... With MS SQL2K, it's $20K per processor for the
Enterprise Edition. This same setup in MS SQL7 Ent w/Internet Connectors
was around $23K.
Nice price change. Why still use MS SQL? I don't see a good reason
anymore, except that for existing apps the cost of re-writing stored procs
and other potentially SQL specific application layers could actually cost
more than that.
-Cameron
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Cameron Childress
ElliptIQ Inc.
p.770.460.7277.232
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