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>>> Bill Haskett wphask...@advantos.net> 9/25/2009 12:59 PM >> ( >>> mailto:wphask...@advantos.net> ) ... SQL Server pricing depends on the licensing model one needs. Generally you get a "per processor" or a "per server" plus end user client access licenses (CALs). Per Microsoft, the suggested retail price is: ... Just a note of clarification. On the server plus CALs there are 2 options. Server plus USER CAL and server plus DEVICE CAL. At first you start to mention user CALs but then in your example you put per device. On the per device, it does not matter how many users use that device (think factory floor workstation shared by the user). On the per user CAL it does not matter how many devices the user has... A previous message said something about "majority of rdbms systems" requiring per device so if a user had 3 devices times 100 user you'd need 300 licenses. I think that was the example used anyway. That's true on the "per device CAL", it is NOT TRUE on the "per user CAL". You would need 1 per user, not 1 per user per device. Even on the per device, it would be the number of total devices. So yes it would be 300 if (and only if) every device only ever had 1 user. Which if that was the case, it wouldn't be too smart to buy per device, which are only slightly cheaper, licenses anyway. Straight from the horses mouth: " A device CAL allows any number of users to gain access to licensed server software from a particular device. A user CAL lets a particular user gain access to licensed server software from any number of devices. In other words, a user CAL covers a particular user's access to the server software from work computers and laptops, as well as from home computers, handheld computers, Internet kiosks, and other devices. A device CAL covers access by multiple users to server software from a single, shared device." And yes you can mix license modes. It is not recommended from a management standpoint, however it is allowed. If you can guarantee that each session will be covered by a user or a device CAL you're good to go. And there's always the option of going per processor which "gives you the right to install any number of copies of SQL Server 2005 on a single computer, as long as you have purchased processor licenses for all of the processors on that computer. " And MS has updated their licensing for virtualization under the per processor option as well. If you buy 8 processor licenses, you can run on 8 physical processors regardless of the number of virtual machines. In my opinion, the U2 license structure needs to be updated... I recently got a quote for 50 additional user licenses, and it was more than double what we pay for MS per user price and almost triple the per device license. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
