[newlines added for easier reading] Scribbling feverishly on April 10, Wil McGilvery managed to emit: > To answer Kurt's questions... > > One of our companies is a M$ Partner and I used to get free licensing.
Nice, that. > Now the freebies are being cut back and I have to ante up for extra > client access licenses. > > 38 Users will cost me ~ $12,000. Not nice at all, that. It wasn't any of my business, I was simply curious how much MS licenses cost. > We have used Exchange and SQL because it didn't really cost. Now that > it does, I am looking for alternatives. That's understandable. > Our use of SQL server is very basic with 35 users accessing three or > four small in house programs. I believe that these programs could be > moved fairly easily. PostgreSQL and MySQL are popular, capable alternatives to SQL Server. You could also use Oracle or DB2. If Exchange is just being used as a mail server, I believe it is easy to replace with other Sendmail, PostFix, Exim, or whatever. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you'd use -- I don't know what Exchange does, frankly, so I'm not in a position to offer an informed opinion. Kurt -- You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.