From: Ellen K. 

Well, Standard is very cost-effective.   :)

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:23:22 -0400, "Robert Comer"
 wrote in message
:

>> The other thing to bear in mind is that you may not need Enterprise.
>> Enterprise is currently needed if you want to use the prebuilt log
>> shipping or clustering, or more than 2 CPUs or more than 4 GB RAM. I
>> think you also need Enterprise for indexed views (what Oracle calls
>> materialized views).  If you want log shipping on Standard you can RYO.
>> I'm using Standard on all my current databases, and it's about 1/4 the
>> cost.
>
>We wouldn't need any of those, so no need for enterprise.
>
>- Bob Comer
>
>
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>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:cm73b1loqb99g2ngkpn4bk8pdv0j6h9opl{at}4ax.com...
>> The other thing to bear in mind is that you may not need Enterprise.
>> Enterprise is currently needed if you want to use the prebuilt log
>> shipping or clustering, or more than 2 CPUs or more than 4 GB RAM.  I
>> think you also need Enterprise for indexed views (what Oracle calls
>> materialized views).  If you want log shipping on Standard you can RYO.
>> I'm using Standard on all my current databases, and it's about 1/4 the
>> cost.
>>
>> For 2005 they are coming out with another level I forget the name of
>> that's between Standard and Enterprise but is only slightly more
>> expensive than the current Standard (I think list is $6K vs $5K for the
>> current Standard), it has failover clustering, up to I think 4 CPUs, and
>> as much RAM as your O/S allows.
>>
>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:36:42 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>>  wrote in message
>> :
>>
>>>So it wouldn't make sense here...
>>>
>>>- Bob Comer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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>>>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:22:38 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> As for per-user, I can't imagine going per-user on
a production
>>>>>> database, per-CPU gets cheaper at a pretty low
number of users.
>>>>>
>>>>>Just what is that pretty low number of users?
>>>>
>>>> Looks like just under 100, based on this:
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/sql/howtobuy/default.asp
>>>>
>>>> Enterprise is $19128 per processor.
>>>>
>>>> Per server + user CAL price is $6382 + $146/user, so
>>>>
>>>> (19128 - 6382)/146 = 87
>>>>
>>>
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