From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 20:46:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-217.knology.net [24.214.76.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E451437B422 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3Q3kU305791; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:46:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200104260346.f3Q3kU305791@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: nathan@vidican.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HotmailMigration In-Reply-To: Message from Nathan Vidican of "Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:20:42 EDT." <3AE6F95A.4D51D58D@wmptl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:46:30 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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