CAL license required?

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 client access license (CAL) licensing terms
states:
A SQL Server CAL is required for a device (for example, a personal
computer, workstation, terminal, personal digital assistant, or
mobile phone) to access or use the services or functionality of
either edition of SQL Server.
I have an application (exe) that accepts TCP/IP connections and stores
the IP addresses of the connecting computers or other devices to a table
stored at SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition database.
Do I have to have a CAL license for every connecting device?
I have an application (exe) that monitors caller numbers from a standard
phone line and stores the caller numbers to a table stored at SQL Server
2000 Standard Edition database.
Do I have to have a CAL license for every calling phone?
SQL Server 2000 CAL licence information can be found at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/servercal.asp .
Microsoft license information makes it sound like any data that ever passed
through a SQL Server database at some stage in its life has to have a CAL.
We have all been assimilated now...
"JF" <noone@.nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft SQL Server 2000 client access license (CAL) licensing terms
> states:
> A SQL Server CAL is required for a device (for example, a personal
> computer, workstation, terminal, personal digital assistant, or
> mobile phone) to access or use the services or functionality of
> either edition of SQL Server.
> I have an application (exe) that accepts TCP/IP connections and stores
> the IP addresses of the connecting computers or other devices to a table
> stored at SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition database.
> Do I have to have a CAL license for every connecting device?
> I have an application (exe) that monitors caller numbers from a standard
> phone line and stores the caller numbers to a table stored at SQL Server
> 2000 Standard Edition database.
> Do I have to have a CAL license for every calling phone?
> SQL Server 2000 CAL licence information can be found at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/servercal.asp .
>
|||Licensing is a very complex beast, but I would guess that for the TCP/IP =
application you would need a CAL for each device that connects. This =
scenario sounds a bit like an internet app (or a multiplexed app), =
therefore you might have to the the per processor licensing route. =20
In the phone case I would guess that you only need one CAL (for the =
exe/phone combination) because you are only logging data as collected by =
your phone line and the exe. This scenario sounds like a service that =
monitors and log events to your database. =20
The difference is slight, but the first scenario has clients connecting =
to it (and to SQL Server). The second example is more like a monitor =
that you have in place.
Don't take my assumptions as right or wrong, they are only a guess.
--=20
Keith
"JF" <noone@.nowhere.com> wrote in message =
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> Microsoft SQL Server 2000 client access license (CAL) licensing terms=20
> states:
>=20
> A SQL Server CAL is required for a device (for example, a personal
> computer, workstation, terminal, personal digital assistant, or
> mobile phone) to access or use the services or functionality of
> either edition of SQL Server.
>=20
> I have an application (exe) that accepts TCP/IP connections and stores =

> the IP addresses of the connecting computers or other devices to a =
table=20
> stored at SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition database.
> Do I have to have a CAL license for every connecting device?
>=20
> I have an application (exe) that monitors caller numbers from a =
standard=20
> phone line and stores the caller numbers to a table stored at SQL =
Server=20
> 2000 Standard Edition database.
> Do I have to have a CAL license for every calling phone?
>=20
> SQL Server 2000 CAL licence information can be found at=20
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/servercal.asp .
>
|||If I am reading this correctly you have an application that when other
applications attach to it the first logs the IP address of the second. Does
the second application (or device) then extract data from the database or is
some other process done? If the purpose of the database is to store the IP
addresses captured by the first application you need a CAL for each machine
running that application. in the case of the second scenario you would need
one CAL for the machine running the phone number capturing application and
any other machine involved in extracting that information from the database.
Andrew C. Madsen
Information Architect
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
"JF" <noone@.nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft SQL Server 2000 client access license (CAL) licensing terms
> states:
> A SQL Server CAL is required for a device (for example, a personal
> computer, workstation, terminal, personal digital assistant, or
> mobile phone) to access or use the services or functionality of
> either edition of SQL Server.
> I have an application (exe) that accepts TCP/IP connections and stores
> the IP addresses of the connecting computers or other devices to a table
> stored at SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition database.
> Do I have to have a CAL license for every connecting device?
> I have an application (exe) that monitors caller numbers from a standard
> phone line and stores the caller numbers to a table stored at SQL Server
> 2000 Standard Edition database.
> Do I have to have a CAL license for every calling phone?
> SQL Server 2000 CAL licence information can be found at
> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/servercal.asp .
>