MSDE Licensing 1

[dcusick]

What's up all? Does anyone have the webpage that has the License Agreement information for MSDE? We currently have a few hundred users around the country with Access DB's locally. We have them replicating through Lotus Notes, since it's pretty reliable. However, it's extremely outdated, and most importantly, extremely SLOW!!! We are looking to replace the Lotus Notes DB with a SQL Server DB. We will then have our people replicate either with MS Access or MSDE. I am almost positive that MSDE is free for up to 5 concurrent connections, so we should be fine if each person has a copy of MSDE on their machine and just connects once to the SQL Server Backend... But I (my boss) wants to be sure that this is true before we even continue. Thanks in advance for the help!

Doug

 

[mrdenny]

The download page:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...D1-A0BC-479F-BAFA-E4B278EB9147&displaylang=en

says "Download Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) Release A, a new release of MSDE 2000 that is now available for free."

Denny

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)

 

[dcusick]

Thanks Denny... That page brought me right to the Licensing Agreement and answered all of my questions! Thanks again... much appreciated!

 

[dcusick]

btw, in case anyone is wondering where the agreement, or the Appropriate Uses FAQ is, go here...

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/howtobuy/msdeuse.asp

 

[mrdenny]

no problem.

Denny

--Anything is possible. All it takes is a little research. (Me)