Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:46:30 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> To: nathan@vidican.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HotmailMigration Message-ID: <200104260346.f3Q3kU305791@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> of "Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:20:42 EDT." <3AE6F95A.4D51D58D@wmptl.com>
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Nathan Vidican writes: [...] > Judging by what it would have cost me to run Win2000 Server for a measly > 25 users on our local office LAN I can't even contemplate the licensing > cost for 5000+ servers serving millions of users. I do understand that > one may be able to get away without purchasing so many copies of the > O/S, but I cannot see how you would legally allow an outside company to > run that many servers without individually licensing them. To be honest, > I do not know much about Microsoft's licensing policies... perhaps you > do offer some sort of bulk, flat-rate, or site-wide licensing fee > schedule for large server farms of this nature, do you? If so, what > would the MSRP be for say 5000 servers each serving 2000 users a piece? Have heard for the part Outlook wants to talk to, MS demands $50/user for a 1,000 user license. Support is extra. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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