November 2, 2007 at 7:02 am
hello folks,
I am a consultant and new to SQL2005 CAL licensing model. I am used to my clients working with either processor or enterprise licensing. My new client is deploying an ASP.NET application and wants to go with CAL licenses, not a SQL shop. This application is built to connect as a single database user (no windows auth) and there will be 2 IT DBAs working with the system. 50 users are anticipated to use this application and expected concurrency is about 10 - 15. we have 2 schools debating on the CAL sematics. One school thinks its 50+2 CALs worst case and with 15 user concurrency we could do 15+2 CALs. The second school thinks its 1 (application connection string user)+2, so in total 3 user license.
Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Ofcourse we have contacted Microsoft, may its the salesman but we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
November 2, 2007 at 7:36 am
Per Microsoft - (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/faq.mspx), there is no concurrent licensing for SQL server. CAL's are to be acquired for every "direct and indirect user of SQL Server" (meaning - end users, NOT the IIS server).
So your question is whether you want to license it by device CAL or by user CAL. For example - if you only allow them to access this from a 10-PC lab (for example), you could license it for 10 DEVICES.
Of course - it sounds like you don't want to limit what devices they use, and you are looking at USER CAL's. So - your licensing would likely be:
1 Server license
50 user licenses (user CAL's)
2 dev licenses (cheaper than User CAL's, would work if your DBA's don't also use the frontend)
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?
November 2, 2007 at 7:41 am
Of course - with 50 users, Server + USER CAL licensing price will be just about the same as 2 per Processor licenses.
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?
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