[Sussex] FYI: Windows 2003 PDC users

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

Ronan Chilvers <ronan at thelittledot.com> writes:

> Hey folks
>
> On the offchance that someone here is a windows admin as well as a
> linuxer, just thought I'd share a nasty gotcha with windows licensing
> that our support company alerted me to t'other day. If you have any
> windows servers on your network that you are thinking of upgrading or
> have upgraded to windows 2003, be careful with CALs.  Installation of
> a windows 2003 server requires not only a new server license
> but also a new set of CALs too.  Your existing device CALs
> are no longer valid.  Therefore to be properly licensed, you need to
> buy not only a Win2003 server licence but a new CAL for every
> connecting device (not just workstations in other words).
>
> Nasty eh?

I'm sure this is the way MS licensing has always worked.  They didn't
make all that money by only charging you once.

See how much cheaper a nice Linux box would be!

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Geoff Teale
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