Re: [TCLUG:22812] Licensing of NT in a linux vs nt whitepaper

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

"Austad, Jay" wrote:
> 
> I think when you license NT for 5 users, you are supposed to have no more
> than 5 people connected to the box at any one time viewing web pages or
> whatever.  I think the same goes for MS-sql products.  If a person accesses
> a page on the webserver that hits the database, they count as one user in
> the database.

AFAIK, a 5 user license NT will actually not allow more than 5 people
onto a file/print share at a time. If that spreads to IIS as well, I
dunno. I would guess IIS is licensed seperately from NT itself...