October 27, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I am very new to SQL Server 2005. I have bought two different CBTs and understand a small portion of SQL Server 2005. I have installed the Developers Edition on a Vista laptop along with Reporting Services and SSIS. I have been experimenting with this and showed some of the IT people. They then had a consultant do a dog and pony show for others.
My question to him was how munch would this cost, but it seemed a lot of double talk. I went out to the MS site and it seems just as bad. I would appreciate if someone would explain this to me.
-Company size 2000
-One DBA will manage this
-Need SSIS to pull form many differ sources about 15 (Access mostly)
- Will use reporting Services and Visual Studio Pro
- Only about 30 people will use this information (reports only from RS)
What is the cost? Would we need 30 CALs?
October 29, 2007 at 10:46 am
Hi,
We can not give you a legal advice, because every company's requirements and licensing are different, but we can give you some examples:
1 If in your company only 30 people will access reports on the web and SQL Server AND Reporting Services are installed on the same server (which is appropriate for 30 people) then you have to read the first scenario from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/howtolicensers.mspx
How to License Reporting Services
having in mind that you are buying server + CALs license (not a processor license that is expensive) It is under assumption that in you company nobody uses SQL Server for any other purposes. You have to buy so many CALs as many people who will access reports "directly or inderectly" I am not really sure that this expression "directly or indirectly" is applicable if you decide to re-send a report by email to other people.
If in you company people have CALs for SQL Server for other applications then these CALs could be used to access your new SQL Server + Report Server
2. If in your company everyone would like to use SQL Server, I would call Microsoft for Volume Licensing
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/default.mspx
you may also want to read the licensing white paper at
Regards,Yelena Varsha
October 29, 2007 at 11:07 am
From what you've mentioned - it sounds like you would in fact need 1 server+30 CAL's. should be quite a bit cheaper than any of the processor licenses. This will cover ONLY your production environment .
That assumes you run SSIS and reporting services from the same physical machine as the "main" SQL server.
Check with your "regular" software vendor what their licensing costs are for that - you should be able to qualify for level "A" (I think) based on this alone, but if you're lumping in other MS licenses - you could get something better even than that.
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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?
October 31, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Thank you both for the response.
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