Re: Licensing for Win2003 server for running webapps

I thought that limitation applied only to 'file and print' services and
such, and not to a webserver app.  I was under the impression that there was
no connection licensing if the only connection was via the webserver.

Lyle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Herrick" <jim(at)bleedpurple.com>
To: "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>; <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:23 AM
Subject: Re: Licensing for Win2003 server for running webapps


> IIRC, almost any non-server OS from Microsoft has a *limit* of 10 network
> connections.  This is probably not suitable for any production web server.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>
> To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 1:19 PM
> Subject: Licensing for Win2003 server for running webapps
>
>
> > Hi folks,
> > This may be off-topic for this list, in which case I apologise.
> >
> > One of my collegues is wanting to set up a server for running various
> > web applications both internally and externally.  Unfortunately, we
> > have found the licensing for Win2003 Server very confusing.  It seems
> > that we need an "external connector license" for each user who
> > connects to the server from outwith our university, but we aren't
> > sure what this means.
> >
> > Are they referring to users who use the server as a file or
> > authentication server (ie none) or just any user who connects to the
> > web server that will be running on that machine (probably Apache),
> > which we have no way of determining.
> >
> > Do we even need Win2003 server?  Would a workstation OS like Win2K
> > Pro suffice, given that we're going to be using it only as as a web
> > (and possibly database) server?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Raj.
> > --
> > Rajnish Bhaskar, Technical officer
> > r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk, http://lordofthemoon.com
> > IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
> > http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/
> > --
> > We're women.  We have double standards to live up to.
> >        -- Ally McBeal
> >
> >
>
>

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