Hey gang: I attended an MS developer session where they said that SQL Desktop will run you about $50 per seat license. That was probably Canadian funds, so that's about, what, $1 American? ;) .......
Patrick Harkins At 01:11 PM 30/10/2001 -0800, Costas Piliotis wrote: >And for the most part, it looks like MSDE and Personal Edition are the same >except the Desktop Edition comes with the Tools (EM, QA, Profiler). Desktop >Engine is just the database. > >So I don't stand corrected :-) > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Costas Piliotis >Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 12:56 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: RE: SQL Server 2000 desktop version. > > >Ahhh... Ooops... I stand corrected. There's a first for everything =) > >Here's Microsoft's link to a comparison: > >http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/architec/8_ >ar_sa2_9gz4.asp > >-----Original Message----- >From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:01 AM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: RE: SQL Server 2000 desktop version. > > > > It's called msde. It comes with Office 2000/XP. Not Really a desktop > > edition but rather a scaled down implementation of SQL Server. > > > > As far as I know, if you have an Office 2000/XP licence, you have a > > MSDE licence as well. > >MSDE isn't the same as SQL Server Desktop Edition. With SQL Server, you >could install the Desktop Edition on a Windows 98 machine, for example, and >you'd get the core SQL Server engine (with some pretty severe size and >functionality limitations) and the Enterprise Manager tools. MSDE, on the >other hand, is simply the SQL Server engine (with its own, different, set of >limitations), with no Enterprise Manager tools. > >If you develop applications with Visual Studio, you can redistribute MSDE >with those applications, as an alternative to using Access. You can't >redistribute SQL Server Desktop Edition. > > > Do you need a license to install the desktop version of SQL Server > > 2000? > >As for needing a license to install SQL Server Desktop Edition, I'm sure you >need one, but I don't know how much it is. You'd also need licenses for >connections, I suspect, if you were to actually have any connections to it. > >Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software >http://www.figleaf.com/ >voice: (202) 797-5496 >fax: (202) 797-5444 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
