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MSSQL 2000 licence costs

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  • 05-03-2007 1:13pm
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    Seth Brundle
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    I searched adverts.ie and there is nothing there!
    I also looked at ebay but am unsure at how many of the items are dodgy.
    Basically I'm looking to find out how much (roughly) it would cost to get a used & licenced copy of MS SQL 2000 for use on a web server.
    I know that there is an express version of MSSQL 2005 but there are processor & ram limitations. I presume there aren't any 2nd hand copies of 2005 out there.
    Is there any recommendations on where to buy this?


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    sicruise
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    Have you looked at other options like MySQL, PostgreSQL etc...


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    Seth Brundle
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    I have alright and may go with mySQL 5 but just wanted to check out all my options.


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    Ginger
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    Usually on webservers you pay by the proc and its about 10K a proc the last time i checked and that might have been for the enterprise edition but this may have changed since the intro of 2005..


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Yeah the rules were for per client ,( not per simultaneous client like in 7 ) or per processor.

    have you tried ebay ?
    there are outfits that sell second hand licenses but they seem to operate like second hand schoolbooks who buy it at 1/3 retail and sell at 2/3 retail - not a massive discount :(


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    aidan_walsh
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    You could always try this bright chaps method.


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    Seth Brundle
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    I had actually thought of that Aidan!


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    Capt'n Midnight
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    180 days, you could run it on the trial version of windows server

    reminds me of the time when we had an app server rebooting every 4 hours, couple of months later we got the license upgraded :rolleyes:


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