LCS & SQL Licenses

[edpatterson]

Be kind, the Oracle DBS's asked me to find out.

1 Is it possible to use LCS with Oracle
2 Assuming the answer to 1 is no, How many SQL connection licenses would LCS require for a server and 1500 users?

Ed

 

[mrdenny]

If you use CALs for your users to connect then you would already have the license. If not you would either need CPU licenses or one SQL cal per user.

LCS requires SQL Server.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/livecomm/howtobuy/default.mspx

Windows 2003 and SQL 2000 are listed as the required software.

Here is an FAQ on how to license your SQL Server faq962-5153.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000) / MCTS (SQL 2005) / MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005)

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

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[edpatterson]

We have the 2003 server license and CALS, the LCS server license and CALS, we/they/I am wondering about the connection between LCS and the database server. I do not think we need 1500 SQL CALS, just the server license and one available CAL for the LCS server, right?

The license advisor does not list LCS...

 

[mrdenny]

Nope. Access via a middleware doesn't get you out of licensing the users connections to the SQL Server. Read the FAQ I posted in the forum.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000) / MCTS (SQL 2005) / MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005)

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

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[edpatterson]

Thanks, I guess I will have to call Microsoft. I read the FAQ on terminal services but it did not help out much. We do have TS CALs for our Citrix farm and that is all OK.

I am simply trying to grasp all the various licenes needed to get LCS up and running. It seems a little extream to need a user CAL for AD a LCS CAL for LCS and a SQL CAL because LCS requires SQL Server. I would think that the LCS CAL would cover the SQL connection. I might be returning the LCS and it's CALS to go with Lotus Same Time Server. It would be like expecting a CAL for every user who accesses a webpage with data genereated from a SQL server, no?

Thanks for all your help, I am accustom to Novell licensing. One large check covers it all.

Ed

 

[mrdenny]

If you are using CALs for your web based SQL server you do need a CAL for every internet user who accesses the SQL Server which is why Microsoft offeres CPU licenses for SQL servers. In my FAQ is shows how to do the math to find out which of the options is cheeper for you. With 1500 users CPU licensing might be cheeper.

Denny
MCSA (2003) / MCDBA (SQL 2000) / MCTS (SQL 2005) / MCITP Database Administrator (SQL 2005)

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

http://www.mrdenny.com