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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