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The Action Pack licensing will not cover or replace the SPLA licensing in any capacity. You are comparing apples and oranges as far as what they are intended for. For each business it depends on your needs as to which licensing plan best fits you. As far as the Action Pack is concerned it is meant to be used on Internal Business systems or Development machines not hosted or systems available to the public. If you merely need SQL Server licensing there is not any reason to use SPLA licensing when you can outright purchase the software and licenses you need for less money. If you provide hosted Exchange Server solutions for customers, or dedicated servers and provide the software as a part of your pricing then SPLA might be your best licensing plan. http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/licensing/spla.asp http://members.microsoft.com/partner/salesmarketing/partnermarket/actionpack/ap _license_plus.aspx Quoting "Michael B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mike - > > I'd love to know who "they" were, did you get it in writing, and can I get it > in writing too? > > If I can cut $1,900 of monthly SPLA (Service Provider Licensing Agreement) > costs out of my overhead, by spending $400 a year on an Action Pack, I'd love > that. It's $22,000 in expenses that would fall straight to my bottom line as > profit. > > Ken Fiore, who is the person responsible for ISP/SPLA contracts at Microsoft, > might disagree with whomever "they" are. I'm at home, and don't have his > business card with me, but if you wanna give HIM a call, and get his answers > in writing/email, I can post his telephone number on Monday. > > Honestly, I'm not meaning to be contentious -- but getting a clear answer on > Microsoft licensing, especially in gray areas like defining "production use" > versus "internal use", is not always an easy thing to do. Requesting to get > items in writing, with references to EULA's or other licensing documents > tends to throw requests WAY "up the chain of command" -- and provides > different answers once you get it in writing. > > Michael > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Mike Herrera > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 12:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Modus] Off Topic > > > Those are good points, however, we use the action pack here and to be sure > that we would be running legal we verified that it was alright to run the > action pack in a live environment as an ISP and they replied that this was > perfectly ok. > > > Regards, > > Mike Herrera > Access One Online Svcs. > http://www.access-one.com <http://www.access-one.com/> > > Attend Peering Conference for ISP's, > April 23-24, 2004, Dallas Texas > Full info: http://www.peercon.org <http://www.peercon.org/> > > > > > > > _____ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Michael B. Smith > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:30 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Modus] Off Topic > > > Careful. > > Read the license before you put any public website or application, open to > the internet, on the license provided by an action pack, an MSDN license, or > a Microsoft Certified Partner license. > > The US action pack license does NOT include an Internet Connector or a > processor license for SQL. It includes a license to SQL server and 10 CALs > (watch for wrappage in the URL below): > > http://members.microsoft.com/partner/salesmarketing/partnermarket/actionpack/ap _license_plus.aspx > > Note the specific restriction: > > the Subscription includes a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free, > terminable license to make and use the number of authorized copies of the > Microsoft software products ("Products") set forth in the Microsoft Action > Pack Subscription Product Licenses table in subsection (c), below, for > internal business use, demonstration, testing, education, and evaluation > purposes only ("Product Licenses"). > > Internal business use does not include being the back-end for a > website/webapp. > > And, I would point out specific to the original question asked in this > thread: the Action Pack license doesn't include downgrade rights. > > Larry > > > ** To unsubscribe, send an Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the body or subject line.
