MOSS Licensing: Take the test!
After having a 27th different opinion on SharePoint Licensing, let's do a test. Below I specified the needs of a customer, you name the licenses that have to be bought.
You have a customer that wants an Intranet to be implemented. You propose to implement SharePoint Portal Server 2007 for all of the 900 users. The customer wants to use the BDC and forms server, no client InfoPath applications. Let us say that because of the business critical character and the volume of data we propose a 5 server farm (2 in front, 1 application and 2 mirrored or clustered database servers). We want an exact copy of this in the acceptance environment using virtualisation on 2 physical servers. The customer wants to develop with his team of 3 developers but they are not entitled to use MSDN licenses.
The servers have to be bought too, so all of the licenses have to be acquired (Win2003, SQL, MOSS, ....) from scratch.
Despite the fact that this is a very simple example, with even no MOSS for Internet included, I'm very curious about your reactions!
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