February 17, 2009 at 8:51 am
Everyone knows that Developer Edition has the same features as Enterprise. Then why? Developer edition is not licensed for use in production environment?
Abhijit - http://abhijitmore.wordpress.com
February 17, 2009 at 8:55 am
The short answer is it cost less than $50 online so no you cannot use it for production, however it is a good way to know the product features.
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Gift Peddie
February 17, 2009 at 8:59 am
you hit the reason on the head...Cost.....Developer version is not licensed for production.
imagine you have 20 developers on your team, building an application that will be deployed in production...each developer either has their own version installed on their machine(like my shop) or at least access to a machine or two for development and QA.
what shop could afford enterprise licenses for their developers to test on? I dunnno the price, but lets say it's $5,000 for arguments sake. to keep licensing legal, that's 5K for production, and 100K for the developers, just to be able to test...
or at least 15K to have a Dev,QA and Production server.
It's true that someone could be sleazy, and try to run their real production app on the Developer version, so there is a measure of trust involved, but the penalties if the company could get into because an unhappy employee reported them would not be worth it.
Developer version is the compromise; for a minimal amount of money (~50 bucks each), a shop can have legal licenses with all the advanced tools to test with prior to putting it into their more expensively licensed production server.
You can work with the free SQL Express verison, but when you want access to things like clustering, Snapshots, SSIS, and a lot of other stuff, you need to step up to the plate and spend a bit of money to be sure you can test correctly..
Lowell
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