Posted by David Portas on 03/22/06 14:00

mleal wrote:
> David,
>
> I agree with you and I know that I need to count CALs by my number of
> end user.
>
> The problem I don't know correctly how many users I have and many of
> them are not employee any more.
>
> My solution for that would be: Export all my users from the
> application, because if it connects to the application it needs a sql
> license, and than match it to my HR system. If user is an employee I
> count a sql license. This would be a solutions.
>
> But it is hard work. Is there not another way?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Marcio

If you really don't know how many users you have then that is one way.
I still don't understand why this would be an issue. Like I said, CALs
are economical only for small enterprises. If you only have 100 or 200
employees then it can't be that difficult to track what applications
they need to use (I once used to do it for a user base of less than
300). Also, applications such as SAP or SIEBEL will cost you FAR more
per user than SQL Server will. For that reason I've never considered
that any of them would be licensed any other way than with a processor
licence. I've not known CAL licensing used with those apps in practice.

Check out the licensing and pricing options at:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/default.mspx

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