Thank you Rick for your valuable insight; now please correct me if I am wrong with my very personal, and definitely subjective, interpretation of this fact. If I remember correctly, around 1996 or 1997 with most hardware being extremely expensive, NCs (Network Computers) came out. This consisted in, as I am sure you guys remember, in dumb clients (no hardrive, memory, etc) and one of the big pros about this new way of seeing the PC besides it cost, was a license advantage. 50 users, 25 users using MS Office at any given time, 25 licenses were needed. So I figured that with InteliMirror it would be the same. Now, and I am sure everybody thought about this some point; Would Microsoft be THAT kind to Corporate America regarding this cool, new technology, and at the same time be a pain in the butt with, let's say, XP licensing?! Thanks everybody. Again, just a thought.
Facundo Chamut. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Kingslan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] a licenses question Glad you decided to participate - welcome aboard. And what thorny question to ask for your first. All vendors, and to some degreee, each package from the same vendor can differ. If you limit this question to desktops, the easy (though debatable and somewhat open to loads of intepretation) answer is you need 50 licenses. Now, if you install only 25 copies so that you know only 25 people can use it at a given time, you would be able to buy only 25. Now, here's the gray area. IntelliMirror does create some licensing questions. It's assigned to the user. Does this mean that I need a license per user, or per machine that they sit at. I've gotten two different answers from two different license managers from Microsoft. Thay aren't even sure how this all works. Is that an answer? Uhhh.... No. It's a mess for all of us because of the inconsistent application of the 'rules' from those who maintain the 'rules'. Sorry I couldn't be more concise. Want to be safe? Get 50 copies. ;-) Rick Kingslan - Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000] Microsoft Certified Trainer MCSA, MCSE+I - Windows NT / 2000 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --- Arthur C. Clarke > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Facundo Chamut > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:52 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] a licenses question > > > party-people, > I've been following your fantastic distribution list > for a while and I have abstained myself from participating > because I didn't feel I have nothing relevant to add. I am > kind of like new to Active Directory, and I haven't > implemented it from scratch yet. I am still **playing** with > it :-), and this distribution list has helped a lot. > I have one question for you guys: When implementing > InteliMirror, and having for example 50 users allowed to use, > let's say, Microsoft Office but only 25 users using it at > any given time, how many licenses do I need to own? Does this > vary with different software manufactures? Thanks everybody! > > Facundo. > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
